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ACTS OF CONGRESS 



ULES AND REGULATIONS 



PRESCRIBED BY THE 



SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, IN PURSUANCE THERETO, 
WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, 



CONCERNING 

^IMLRCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH AND IN STATES AND PARTS 
OF STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, 

CAPTURED, ABNADONED, AND CONFISCABLE PROPERTY, 

THE O^RE: OW ITJEiBEDMlElSr, 



fD THE PURCHASE UF PRODUCTS OF INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS 
ON GOVERNiMENT ACCOUNT. 



REPRINT, 



WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 

1872. 



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ACTS OF CONGRESS 



RULES AND REGULATIOI^S 



PEESCRIBED BY THE 



SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, IN PURSUANCE THERETO, 
WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, 



COXCERNING 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH AND IN STATES AND PARTS 
OF STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, 



CAPTURED, ABANDONED, AND CONFISCABLE PROPERTY, 



THE CARE OE ER^EDnyCEI^', 



AND THE PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS OF INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS 
ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT. 



REPHINT. 




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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 
1872. 






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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 

Act to regnLate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799 .. 5 

Act concerning commercial intercourse, July 13, 1861 6 

Act supplementary to couuiiercial intercourse act, May 20, 1862 9 

Act to suppress insurrection, to prevent treason and rebellion, to seize and con- 
fiscate the property of rebels, &c., July 17, 1862 10 

Act concerning abandoned and captured property, March 12, 1863 13 

Act in addition to acts concerning commercial intercourse, captured and aban- 15 

doned property, &c., July 2, 1864 

Procl.amation of 'the President, April 19, 1861 - 20 

Proclamation of the President, April 27, 1861 21 

Proclamation of the President, August 16, 1861 21 

Proclamation of tlie President, May 12, 1862 23 

Regulations relating to trade ^yitll opened ports. May 12, 1862 24 

Proclamation of the President, July 1, 1862 '. 24 

Proclamation of the President, July 25, 1862 25 

Proclamation of the President, April 2, 1863 26 

Proclamation of the President, September 24, 1863 27 

Proclamation of the President, December 8,.1863 28 

Procla mation of the President, February 18, 1864 30 

Proclamation of the President, November 19, 1864. 32 

Eegnlations relating to trade ^y ith opened ports, November 23, 1864 32 

Proclamation of the President, April 11, 1865 33 

Proclamation of the President, April 11, 1865 34 

Proclamation of the President, May 22, 1865 34 

Proclamation of the President, June 13, 1865 35 

Proclamation of the President, .June 23, 1865 37 

Proclamation of the President, June 24, 1865 38 

Proclamation of the President, August 29, 1865, and regulations 39 

Order of the President, February 28, 1862 40 

Regulations concerning internal commercial intercourse, March 4, 1862 40 

Circular of the Secretary of the 'STteasury, March 29, 1862 42 

Regulations concerning commercial intercourse, August 28, 1862 43 

Order of Secretary' of War 46 

Order of Secretary of the Navy 47 

Eegnlations concerning commercial intercourse, Mar^'h 31, 1863 47 

Order of Secretary of War 52 

Order of Secretary of the Navy 54 

President's approval and license .56 

Circular bf Secretary of the Treasury, April 15, 1863 57 

Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, July 3, 1863 58 

Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, September 11, 1863 62 

Trade regulations, September 11, 1863 64 

Regulations concerning abandoned and captured property, September 11, 1863.. 81 

Additional regulations concerning commercial intercourse, January 26, 1864 88 

Modihcation of regulation relating to permit-fee, March 21, 1864 91 

President's ajjproval and license, July 30, 1864 92 

General regulations, July 29,1864 92 

Regulations concerning commercial intercourse 94 

Regulations concerning abandoned, captured, and confiscable personal j)roperty . Ill 

Regulations concerning abandoned lands, houses, and tenements 118 

Regulations concerning freedmeu 122 

Order of Secretary of War 125 

Order of Secretary of the Navy 126 

Order of Quartermaster General 126 

Executive order 126 



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Page. 

Circular of Secretary of tbe Treasury, August 24, 1864 127 

Circular of Secrettiry of the Treasury, November 23, 1864 127 

Auiemlcd rogulation LV, January 4, 1865 129 

Amended general regulations, April 25, 1865 IIW 

Executive order, Ai)ril 29, 1865 131 

Regulations concerning commercial intercourse, May 9, 1865 131 

Appointmeut of special agent, May 8, 1865 135 

Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, May 16, 1865 135 

Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, Jnue 27, 1865 137 

liegulatious for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States, September 

24,1864 r 139 

Executive order 142 

Onler of Secretary of War 143 

Order of Secretary of the Navy 144 

Amended regulat i(m 1 V, March 30, 1865 144 

Amended general regulations, April 26, 1865 145 

Amended regulations for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States, 

May 9, 1865 146 

Instructions coucerning collection of captured propertj^ issued subsequent to 

Juue30, 1865 : 148 



ACTS OF CONGRESS. 



AN ACT to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, referred to in 
5th section of the act approved May 20, 1862, and 4th section of the act approved 
March 12, 1863, appended hereto. 

Sec. 01. And he it further oiacfed, That all fines, penalties, Distribution of 
and forfeitures recovered by virtue of tliis act (and not other- ^"^l ^""^ foTteiU 
wise appropriated) shall, after deducting' all proper costs and 
charges, be disposed of as follows: One moiety shall be for 
the use of the United States, and be paid into the Treasury 
thereof by the collector receiving the same; the other moiety 
shall be divided between and i)aid in equal proportions to 
the collector and naval officer of the district and surveyor 
of the port wherein the same shall have been incurred, or to 
such of the said officers as there may be in the said district ; 
and in districts where only one of the aforesaid officers shall 
liave been established, the said moiety shall be given to such 
officer : 

Providedj ncrertlieless^ That in all cases where such penal- when one-haif 
ties, fines, and forfeitures shall be recovered in pursuance of *^^"^°™'^''- 
information given to such collector by any person other than 
the naval officer or surveyor of the district, the one-half of 
such moiety shall be given to such informer, and the re- 
mainder thereof shall be disposed of between the collector, 
naval officer, and surveyor or surveyors, in manner afore- 
said : 

Provided, also, That where any fines, forfeitures, and pen- when the in- 
alties incurred by virtue of this act, are recovered in conse- oS'oTrevenu.?- 
quence of any information given by any officer of a revenue cutter. 
cutter, they shall, after deducting all proper costs and 
charges, be disposed of as follows : One-fourth part shall be 
for the use of the United States, and paid into the Treasury 
thereof in manner as before directed ; one-fourth i^art for 
the ofiicers of the customs, to be distributed as hereinbefore 
set forth ; and the remainder thereof to the officers of such 
cutter, to be divided among them agreeably to their pay : 

And provided, liJcewise, That whenever a seizure, condem- if value under 
nation, and sale of goods, wares, or merchandise shall take!?^2 ,^^^ part of 

1 • 1 • At -r-r 1 A ■.-. 1 rt U. .S. to be applied 

place within the United States, and the value thereof shall to costs. 
be less than two hundred and fifty dollars, that part of the 
forfeiture which accrues to the United States, or so much 
thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to the pay- 
ment of the cost of prosecution. 

And be it further provided, That if any officer or other Persons entitled 
person entitled to a part or share of any of the fines, penal- m^y ^^ ^^^pesses, 

i- X- V -J- • T • ■ , ,. . 1 . . '■,■,■.■. but to receive no 

ties, or forfeitures incurred m virtue of this act, shall be compensation, 
necessary as a witness on the trial for such fine, penalty, or 
forfeiture, such officer or other person may be a witness upon 



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tlie said trial ; but in such case he shall not receive, nor be 
ontitU'd to any i)art or share of the said fine, penalty, or for- 
feiture, and the ])art or share to which he otherwise would 
have been entitled shall revert to the United States. 
Approved, March 2, 1799. 



AX ACT fnrtbcr to provide for tlie colli-ction gf duties on imports, and 
for otiier puri)ose.s. 

When iniprac- Bc it enactcfl hy the Senate and House of Representatives of 
'^^XJf^.^,tlie United Stales of America in Conf/ress assembled, That 
of eutrj' in »ny -syheucver it shall, in the judgment of the President, by 
wl^mlctrd^tm'Jy reason of unlawful combinations of persons in opposition to 
port of iieiiv.-ry.^iiy j.^^y,. ^f ^\^^, XJuitcd Statcs, become ini])racticable to ex- 
triti. ccute the revenue laws and collec-t the duties on imports by 

ordinary means, in the ordinary way, at any port of entry 
in ail}' collection district, he is authorized to cause such du- 
ties to be collected at any port of delivery in said district 
until such obstruction shall cease; and in such case the 
surveyors at said ports of delivery shall be clothed with 
all the powers and be subject to all the obligations of col- 
lectors at ports of entry ; and the Secretary of the Treasury, 
Avith the approbation of tlie President, sliall ajipoint such 
number of weighers, gangers, measurers, inspectors, ap- 
praisers, and clerks as may be necessary, in his judgment, 
for the faithful execution of the revenue laws at said ports 
Limits of ports of delivery, and shall fix and establish the limits witliiu 
to be cstubiibhea. -^^.]jjj,jj ^^n,[y ports of delivery are constituted ])orts of entry, 
as aforesaid; and all the provisions of law regulating the 
Laws to Bppiy issue of marine papers, the coasting trade, the warehousing 
to such ports. ^j. j,„pj)^.<^^^ ji,„| collection of duties, shall apply to the ports 
of entry so constituted in the same manner as they do to 
ports of entry established by the laws now in force, 
whendutifis Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That if, from the cause 
eiUMiotbo collect- p^(i,jtiQm.(^l j,i ||,(i foregoiiig section, in the judgment of the 

ed at any port of ,^ . , , , *^ ,. '- -, ■ • . , ^ 

entry or delivery President, tlic reveiiue from duties on ]in[>orts cannot be 

cu",omwiemBy«<^"^'<=t"«lly coUcctcd at auy port of entry in any collectiou 

be established, &c. district, ill tlic Ordinary way and by the ordinary means, or 

by the course inovided in the foregoing section, then and i'.i 

that case he may direct that the custom-house for the district 

be established in any secure jdace within said district, either 

on land or on board any vessel in said district, or at sea near 

the coast ; and in such case the collector shall leside at su(!h 

Kesidenop nnd i)lace, or Oil sliipboai'd, as the case mav be, and there detain 

dnty of collector, n i i • • •i.^ ■ ' i ■ • i 

all vessels ami cargoes arriving within or approaching said 

district, until the duties imp()se<l by law on said vessels and 

VcHsei may their cargocs are paid in cash : Provided. That if the owner 

change her disli- . .. .1 1 i ' 1 1 i. • i 

nation to unob- or cousigiiee ot tlic cargo ou board any vessel detained as 
structed port. aforesaid, or the master of said vessel, shall desire to enter 
a jxirt of entry in any other district of the United States 
where no such ol)structions to the execution of the lawsexist, 
the master of such vessel may be permitted so to change the 
destination of the vessel and cargo in liis manifest, where- 
upon the collector shall deliver him a written permit to pro- 



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ceed to the port SO designated : And lyrovided further^ That secretary of 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall, with the approbation ,'^/gXJ[>;j*^° ^"^^^ 
of the President, make proper regulations for the enforce- 
ment on shipboard of snch provisions of the laws regulating 
the assessment and collection of duties as in his judgment 
may be necessary and practicable. 

Sec;. 3. And he it further enacted^ That it shall be unlawful vessei or cargo 
to take any vessel or cargo detained as aforesaid from the f^V custody'' o° 
custody of the proper oflicers of the customs, unless b}^ pro- officers ot cus- 
cess of sonje court of the United States; and in case of any °u8'e '^of mmtary 
attem])t otherwise to take such vessel or cargo by any force, ![ufi,o° ^^^^ ^"'''^'^ 
or combination, or assemblage of persons too great to be 
overcome by the officers of the customs, it shall and may be 
lawful for the President, or such person or persons as he 
shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part 
of the Army or I^avy, or militia of the United States, or such 
force of citizen volunteers as may be deemed necessary, for 
the purpose of preventing the removal of such vessel or 
cargo and protecting the officers of the customs in retaining 
the custody thereof. 

Sec. 4. And he it further enacted, That if, in the judgment Ports of entry 
of the President, from the cause mentioned in the first sec- rerfain'^cales?'^ '^ 
tion of this act, the duties upon imports in any collection 
district cannot be eiiectually collected by the ordinary means 
and in the ordinary way, or in the mode and manner pro- 
vided in the foregoing section of this act, then, and in that 
case, the President is hereby empowered to close the port Notice to be 
or ports of entry in said district, and in such case give notice ^'^^°' 
thereof by proclamation ; and thereupon all right of impor- 
tation, warehousing, and other privileges incident to ports 
of entry, shall cease and be discontinued at such i^ort so 
closed until opened by the order of the President, on the 
cessation of such obstructions; and if, while said ports are Effect of such 
so closed, any ship or vessel from beyond the United States, '^'«'^°"*'""a"'=«- 
or having on board any articles subject to duties, shall enter 
or attempt to enter any such port, the same, together with 
its tackle, a])parcl, furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited to 
the IJnited States. 

Sec. 5. And he it further enacted, That whenever the The President 
President, in pursuance of the provisions of the second JJ!iy''d*g')^°/"4''e 
section of the act entitled "An act to provide for calling i^iiabitants of a 
forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress !„* a state'^ofinsur'^ 
insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now ^^'^'l"^"- ^''^^' '^^^ 
in force for that purpose," approved February twenty-eight, 
seventeen hundred and ninety-five, shall have called forth 
the militia to supi)ress combinations against the laws of the 
United States, and to cause the laws to be duly executed, 
and the insurgents shall have failed to disperse by the time 
directed by the President, and when said insurgents claim 
to act under the authority of any State or States, and such 
claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by thepersous exercis- 
ing the functions of go\'ernmentinsucli State or States, or in 
the part or parts thereof in which said combination exists, 
nor such insurrection suppressed by said State or States, 
then, and in such case, it may and shall be lawful for the 
President, by proclamation, to declare that the inhabitants 



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of such State, or any section or part thereof where such iu- 

surreetion exists, are in a state of insurrection against the 

Commercial in- United States ; and therenjwn all conunercial intercourse 

on'reeaie"'"^' ^>y an^l betwccu the sainc and the citizens tliereof and the 
citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be 
unlawfnl solongassuch condition of hostility shall continue ; 

be^forteued!"^^ *° '^'^^^ '^^^ goods and chattcls, wares and merchandise, coming 
from said State or section into the other parts of the Uni- 
ted States, and all proceeding to such State or section by 
land or water, shall, together with the vessel or vehicle 
conveying the same, or conveying persons to or from such 
State or section, be forfeited to the United States : Pro- 
President may ri(]e(L hoivever, That the President mav, in his dis(!retion, 

permit lutercourse ,. ' -, ' .. .,.,•-' . - ,' 

in certain cases liceuse aud permit commercial intercourse with any such 
ti^us""^^'" "'^"'*' l*'^^t "f said. State or section, the inhabitants of which are 
so declared in a state of insurrection, in such articles, and 
for such time, and by such persons, as he, in his discretion, 
may think most conducive to the public interest ; and 
such intercourse, so far as by him licensed, shall be con- 
ducted and carried on only in pursuance of rules aud regu- 
lations prescribed l)y the Secretary of the Treasury. And 
Officers of eus- tlic Secretary of the Treasury may ai)point such officers, at 
jK.\'uted!'t"heii''pay phiecs whereofficei's of the customs are not now authorized by 
&c. ' law, as may be nce<led to carry into effect such licenses, 

rules, and regulations; and officers of the customs and other 
officers shall receive for services under this section, and 
under said rules and regulations, such fees and compensa- 
tiou as are now allowed for similar service under other pro- 
visions of law. 
Vessels belong- Sec. G. And be if further enacted, That from and after fif- 
HuVrectior" when teen days after the issuing of the said lu'oclamation, as pro- 
to be forfeittu. vidcd ill the last foregoing section of this act, any ship or 
vessel belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or in- 
habitant of said State or part of a State whose inhabitants 
are so declared in a state of insurrection, found at sea, or 
in any port of the rest of the United States, shall be for- 
feited to the United States. 
What vessels Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That in the execution 
execui''irtiw^n;ve° of the provisions of this act aud of the other laws of the 
nuc laws. Uiiitcd Statcs providiiig for the collection of duties on im- 

ports and tonnage, it ma^' and shall be lawful for the Presi- 
dent, in addition to the revenue-cutters in service, to em- 
ploy in aid thereof such other suitable vessels as may, in 
his judgment, be required. 
Remission of Sec. 8. Aud bc it furthcr euacfed. That the forfeitures aud 
^^"i!).'®"" ^^^''^' penalties incurred by virtue of this act may be mitigated 
or remitted, in i>ursuaiice of the authority vested in the 
Secretary of the Treasury by the act entitled "An act pro- 
viding for mitigating or remitting the Ibrfeitures, penal- 
ties, and disabilities accruing in certain cases therein meu- 
tioned," approved March third, seventeen hundred and 
ninety-seven, or in cases where special circumstances may 
seem to require it, according to regulations to be prescribed 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
rn what courts Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That proceedings on seiz- 
enforced" """^ ^'^ ^^^^^^ *^^' forfeitures under this act may be pursued in the 



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courts of tlie United States in any district into which the 
jiroperty so seized may be taken and proceedings instituted; 
and such courts shall have and entertain as tull jurisdiction 
over the same as if the seizure was made in that district. 
Approved, July 13, 1861. 



AN ACT supplementary to an act approved on the thirteenth July, 
eifjliteen hnndred and sixty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the 
collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes.'' 

Be.if enacted by the Senate and House of Representativefi of 1 8 6 1 , ch. 3. 
tlie United States of America in Congress assembled. That ^eftllTdro^Si's! 
the Secretary of the Treasury, in addition to the powers 'f>'^'=- 
conferred upon him by the act of the thirteenth July, eight- 
een hundred and sixty-one, be, and he is hereby, authorized 
to refuse a clearance to any vessel or other vehicle laden 
with goods, wares, or merchandise, destined for a foreign or 
domestic port, whenever he shall have satisfactory reason 
to believe that .such goods, wares, or merchandise, or any 
part thereof, .whatever may be their ostensible destination, 
are intended for ports or i)laces in possession or under con- 
trol of insurgents against the United States; and if any. vesseia depart- 
vessel or other vehicle for which a clearance or permit shall dearance ""to °be 
have been refused by the Secretary of the Treasury, or by f'"'f**"eci. 
his order, as aforesaid, shall depart or attemi)t to depart 
for a foreign or domestic port without being duly cleared 
or permitted, such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, 
apparel, furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited to tLe United 
States. 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever a per- upon granting 
mit or clearance is granted for either a foreign or doniestic ^J.'' „';ay°''requ\'r,fa 
port, it shall be lawful for the collector of the customs bond. 
granting- the same, if he shall deem it necessary, under the 
circumstances of the case, to require a bond to be executed 
by the master or the owner of the vessel in a penalty equal 
to the value of the cargo, and with sureties to the satisfac- condition of 
tion of such collector, that the said cargo shall be delivered °" " 
at the destination for which it is cleared or permitted, and 
that no part thereof shall be used in affording aid or com- 
fort to any person or parties in insurrection against the 
authority of the United States. 

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of Transportation 
the Treasury be, and he is hereby, further empowered to 1*0 br'prohfbited 
prohibit and prevent the transportation in any vessel or ''""^ P'^'^'^'-'^ted. 
npou any railroad, turnpike, or other road or means of 
transportation within the United States, of any goods, 
wares, or merchandise of whatever character, and whatever 
may be the ostensible destination of the same, in all cases 
where there shall be satisfactory reasons to believe that 
such goods, wares, or merchandise are intended for any 
place in the possession or under the control of insurgents 
against the United States, or that there is imminent danger 
that such goods, wares, or merchandise will fall into the 
possession or under the control of such insurgents ; and he 



10 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 

is fnrtlier autuorized, in all cases where he shall deem it 
expedient so to do, to reciuire reasonable security to be 
jjiven that goods, wares, or merchandise shall not be traus- 
l)orted to any i>lace under insurrectionary control, and shall 
not, in any way, be used to give aid or comfort to such in- 
surgents; and he may establish all such general or special 
regnlations as may be necessar3' or proper to carry into 
Provision foreftcct the purposcs of tliis act ; and if anv goods, wares, or 
forfeiture 'hereof, j^^^^^.^.j^.^j^^^j^^ ^j^.^j, ^^^ transi)orted iu violatioii of this act, or 

of any regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury estab- 
lished in pursuance thereof, or if any attempt shall be made 
so to transport them, all goods, wares, or merchandise so 
trans[)orti'd or attempted to be transported shall be forfeited 
to the United States. 
Proceedincs for Sec. 4. Ami he it further enacted, That the proceedings 
feature" ''"'^ ^"''^' f^^r the penalties and forfeitures accruing under this act 
may be pursued, and the same maybe mitigated or remitted 
Rcmi«Bion. by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the modes ])rescribed 
by the eighth and ninth sections of the act of July thirteenth, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to which this act is sup- 
plementary. 
Proceeds of gj^c, 5. Aud 1)6 it further enacted, That the proceeds of all 
h.av ' (iilt db lit ed.' penal ties and forfeitures incurred under this act, or the act 
2799, c h. 22, § ^q ^yiijeh tlils Is Supplemental^, shall be distributed in the 
manner provided l>y the ninety-lirst section of the act of 
March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled 
"An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports 
aud tonnage." 
Approved, ]\ray 20, 1862. 



AN ACT to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to 
seize and conliscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes. 

Treason, how Be it eiuicted h\j thc Senate and Mouse of Representatives of 
puaisbtd. ^/,g United istates of America in Congress assembled. That 

every person who shall hereafter commit the crime of trea- 
son against the United States, ami sliall be adjudge<l guilty 
thereoi', shall suffer death, and all his slaves, if any, shall 
be declared and made free; or, at the discretion of the court, 
he sliall be imi)risoned for not less than tive years and fined 
not-less than ten thousand dollars, and all his slaves, if any, 
shall be declared and nnule free; said fine shall be levied 
and collected on any or all of the proi)erty, real and per- 
sonal, excluding slaves, of which the said person so con- 
victed was the owner at the time of committing the said 
crime, any sale or conveyance to the contrary notwith- 
standing. 
Enprnpinff or us- Skc 2. And hc it furthcr enacted, That if any person shall 
bem\ui tgaiVst '^t'reafter incite, set on foot, assist, or engage in any rebel- 
tiie.u^^s., bow lion or insurrei^tion again.st the authority of the United 
States, or the laws thereof, or shall give aid or comfort 
thereto, or sliall engage in, or givci aid and comfort to any 
such existing rebellion or insurrection, and be convicted 
thereof, such person shall be punished by imprisonment for 



puuished. 



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a period not exceeding ten years, or by a fine not exceed- 
ing ten tlionsand dollars, and by the liberation of all his 
slaves, if any he have, or hy both of said punishments, at 
the discretion of the conrt. 

Sec. 3. And he if further enacted, That every person guilty Disqualified to 
of either of the offenses described in this act shall be for>°''' <^«^'='^- 
ever incapable and disqualified to hold any office under the 
United States. 

Sec. 4. A7id he it further enacted. That this act shall not ^^l\,^''^ "^"V 

1 . /.,. , 1 . ^ 1 i • afteet tliose guilty 

be construed m any way to anect or alter the prosecution, before, uuie^s.&c. 
conviction, or punishment of any person or persons guilty of 
treason against the United States before the passage of this 
act, unless such person is convicted under this act. 

Sec. 5. And he it further enacted, That to insure the speedy Pre sident to 
termination of the' present rebellion, it shall be the duty ofor'nTe e^stat'e,' Ic! 
the President of the United States to cause the seizure of 
all the estate aiul property, money, stocks, credits, and 
effects of the persons hereinafter named in this section, and 
to appi}" and use the same, and the i)roceeds thereof, for the 
support of the Army of the United States; that is to say: 

First. Of any person hereafter acting as an officer of the or rebel officers. 
army or navy of the rebels iu arms against the Government 
of the United States. 

Second! V. Of any person hereafter acting as president, or president or 

• S. ij? ■ 1 i> i. other officer of so- 

vice-]»resident, member oi congress, judge oi any court, caiied confederate 
cabinet officer, foreign minister, commissioner, or consul of ''*"^**^'*- 
the so-called Confederate States of America. 

Thirdly. Of any person acting as governor of a State, of governor 
member of a convention or legislature, or judge of any court faui staaY. "' ''"^ 
of any of the so called Confederate States of America. 

Fourthly. Of an}" person who, having held an office of of certain per- 
honor, trust, or profit in the United States, shall hereafter offices of ho no'V^ 
hold an office in the so-called Confederate States of America. '^'=- 

Fifthly. Of any person hereafter holding an office or of any person 
ageucy under the government of the so-called Confederate "lo'^ing office 
States of America, or under any of the several States of the confederate 
said confederacy, or the laws thereof, whether such office '^'-'tes- 
or agency be national, State, or municipal in its name or 
character: Provided, That the persons thirdly, fourthly, and P'ovIso. 
fifthly above described shall have accepted their appoint- 
ment or election since the date of the pretended ordinance 
of secession of the State, or shall have taken an oath of 
allegiance to, or to sui)port the constitution of, the so-called 
Confederate States. 

Sixthly. Of any person who, owning proi)erty in any of certain per- 
loyal State or Territory of the United States, or iii the Dis- u'^rrebeTiion': 
trict of Columbia, shall hereafter assist and give aid and 
comfort to such rebellion; and all sales, transfers, or con- saiesofproper- 
veyances of any such property shall be null and void; and *^^y,,''^t '!^mii be 
it shall be a sufficient bar to any suit brought by such per- bar to suits. 
son for the possession or the use of such })ropert3', or any of 
it, to allege andi)rove that he is one of the persons described 
iu this section. 

Sec. G. And he it further enacted, That if anv person property, &c., 
Tvithin any State or Territory of the United States, other "fj^^^'^^Vf/Xs- 
than those named as aforesaid, after the passage of thisact, ii^;ni iiaiji.e to 
being engaged in armed rebellion against the Government '*"''""'• 



12 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 

of tlie TTuited States, or aidin/jf or abetting' such rebellion, 
shall not, within sixty days after public warniiif;- and pioc- 
laniation duly given aiul made by the President of the 
United States, cease to aid, countenance, and abet such 
rebellion, and return to his allegiance to the United States, 
all the estate and projierty, moneys, stocks, and credits of 
such i)erson shall be liable to seizure as aforesaid, and it 
shall be the duty of the President to seize and use them as 
vof/^^^' ^'^" ^^oresaid, or the proceeds thereof. And all sales, transfers, 
or conveyances of any such property after the expiration of 
the said sixty days from the date of such warning and 
proclamation shall be null and void; and it shall be a suffi- 
cient bar to any suit brought by such person for the pos- 
session or the use of such i>roperty, or any of it, to allege 
and prove that he is one of the persons described in this 
section. 
Proceedings to Sec. 7. And be It furtJie)' enacted, That to secure the con- 
L*^n,'^&c.!"ofTuch<l^^'i''i<'tion and sale of any of such property, after the same 
property. shall luivc bccji scizcd, SO that it may be made available for 

the purpose aforesaid, proceedings in rem shall be instituted 
in the name of the United States in any district court 
thereof, or in any territorial court, or in the United States 
district court for the District of Columbia, within which the 
Ijroperty above described, or any part thereof, may be found, 
or into which the same, if movable, may first be brought, 
which ])roceedings shall conform as nearly as nuiy be to 
proceedings in admiralty or revenue cases; and if said prop- 
erty, whether real or personal, shall be found to have be- 
longed to a person engaged in rebellion, or who has given 
aid or comfort thereto, the same shall be condemned as 
enemies' i)roi)erty, and become the property of the United 
States, and may be disposed of as the court shall decree, 
an<l the proceeds thereof i)aid into the Treasury of the 
United States for the puri)oses aforesaid. 
Power of courts Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That the several courts 
in such cases. aforcsald shall have power to make such orders, establish 
such forms of decree and sale, and direct such dee<ls anil 
conveyances to be executed and delivered by the marshals 
thereof where real estate shall be the subject of sale, as 
shall titly and efficiently effect the purposes of this act, and 
vest in the purchasers of such property good and valid titles 
thereto. And the said courts shall have ])ower to allow 
such fees and charges of their officers as shall be reasonable 
and proper in the premises. 
Certain slaves to Sec. 9. Aiul he it further enacted. That all slaves of per- 
tivfs''''orwar Md^'^ons wlio shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the 
to be set free. Government of the United States, or who shall in any way 
give aid or comfort thereto, escai)ing' from such persons 
and taking refuge within the lines of the Army ; and all 
slaves ca[>tured from such persons or deserted by them and 
coming under the control of the Government of the United 
States; and all slaves of such i)ersons found on [or] being 
within any place occupied by rebel forces, and afterwards 
occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed 
ca[)tives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude, 
and not agaiu held as slaves. 



ACTS OF CONGRESS. 13 

Sec. 10. And he it further enactcfl, That no slave cscapino- Escaped slaves 
into any State, Territory, or tlie J)istrictof Colnnibia, troiii'^°'r*,%^f,X7s 
any other State, shall be delivered up, or in any way im- claimant shaii 

*TT I'lii'i-Ti i. i.x' •*' make oath that 

jieded or liindered ot his liberty, except for crime, or some the alleged owner 
offense against the laws, unless the person claiming said '•* ^"y**'' '^<'- 
fngitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the 
labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his 
lawful owner, and has not borne arms against the United 
States in the present rebellion, nor in any way given aid or 
comfort thereto ; and no person engaged in the military or 
naval service of the United States shall, under any pretense 
whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of 
any person to the service or labor of any other person, or 
surrender up any such person to the claimant, on pain of 
being dismissed from the service. 

Sec. 11. And he it furtlier enacted, That the President of President may 

,, TT'. irN.. -11 • -I , 1 employ persons of 

the United States is authorized to employ as many persons African descent to 
of African descent as he may deem necessary and proper j^^pp'*^**' '''^^''^ ■ 
for the suppression of this rebellion, and for this purpose he 
may organize and use them in such manner as he may 
judge best for the i^ublic welfare. 

Sec. 12. And he it furtlier enacted, That the President of, colonization of 

,_-.., ^ . , -I , • 1 1 ■ ■ freed slaves. 

the United States is hereby authorized to make provision 
for the transportation, colonization, and settlement, in some 
tropical country beyond the limits of the United States, of 
such persons of the African race, made free by the provis- 
ions of this act, as may be willing to emigrate, liaving first 
obtained the consent of the government of said country to 
their protection and settlement within the same, with all the 
rights and privileges of freemen. 

Sec. 13. And he it further enacted, That the President is r^p7jj^^''"*^j^°g7 
hereby authorized, at any time hereafter, by proclamation, andVa^on'T'^'^''^ 
to extend to persons who may have participated in the ex- 
isting rebellion in any State ori)art thereof, pardon and am- 
nesty, with such exceptions and at such time and on such 
conditions as he may deem expedient for the public wel- 
fare. 

Sec. 14. And he it further enacted. That the courts of the. courts may 

T-r • !<■.., 1 11 1 ;. 11 J • i'j i T issue process to 

United States shall have full power to institute proceedings, carry this act into 
make orders and decrees, issue process, and do all other '^^•''=*- 
things necessary to carry this act into effect. 
Approved, July 17, 1862. 



c 



AN ACT to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the 
prevention of frands in insurrectionary districts within the United 
States. 

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representa- special agents 
iives of the United States of America in Congress assem- l°^t^l^Iu al'^^e k 
hied, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the or captured pro- 

m x- 1 ji-j. j-i J? J.1 • J. 1 perty m certain 

Treasury, from and after the passage of this act, as he cases. 
shall from time to time • see tit, to appoint a special 
agent or agents to receive and collect all abandoned 
or captured property in any State or Territory, or any 



14 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 

])ortion of any State or Territory of tlie United States, 
(lesiguated as iu insarreetioii against the lawful Goveru- 
nient of the Uuited States by the proclamation of the 
President of July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: 
Proviso. Provided, That such property shall not include any kind or 

description which has been used, or which was inteiuled to 
be used, for waging or carrying on war against the United 
States, such as arms, orduance, ships, steamboats, or other 
water-craft, and the furniture, forage, military supplies or 
munitions of war. 
Such property Seo. 2. Aud be U further enacted, That any part of the 
™edt'o*'p"ubi[c''use»of>t^s or property recelved or collected by such agent or 
or sold iit public agents may be ai)propriated to public use on due appraise- 
states"'" ^"^"'»>ent and certificate thereof, or forwarded to any place of 
sale within the loyal States, as the public interests may re- 
quire; and all sales of such property shall be at auction to 
the highest bidder, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid 
into the Treasury- of the Uuited States. 
Bond of special Sec. 3. Aiul he it further enacted, That the Secretary of 
agents. ^^^^ Trcasury may "require the special agents appointed 

under this act to give a bond, with such securities and in 
such amount as he shall deem necessary, aud to require the 
increase of said amounts and the strengthening of said 
security as circumstances may demand ; aud he shall also 
kept""^** *° ^^ cause a book or books of accounts to be ke])t, showing from 
wliom such proi)erty was received, the cost of transporta- 
owners of such tioii, aud the procccds of the sale thereof. And any person 
fo7Ke"d^sTu claiming to have been the owner of any such abandoned or 
Court of Claims, capturcd property may, at any time within two years after 
the suppression of the rebellion, prefer his claim to the pro- 
upon whatceeds thereof in the Court of Claims; and on proof to the 
P'°°^'"''y''"'°^"- satisfaction of said court of his ownership of said property, 
of his right to the proceeds thereof, and that he has never 
given any aid or comfort to the present rebellion, to receive 
the residue of such proceeds, after the deduction of any 
l)urchase-money which may have been paid, together with 
the expense of transportation and sale of said property, 
and any other lawful expenses attending the disposition 
thereof. 
Property com- Sec. 4. And U U further enacted, That all property 
ing into loyal coming into any of the United States not declared in insur- 
in'TusmTectTon! recti on as aforesaid, from within any of the States declared 
TeciaVa-onts^o^^ iusurrectioii, through or by any other person than any 
brcinfis^c'iued.' '"agent duly appointed under the provisions of this act, or 
under a lawful clearance by the proper oflicer of the Treas- 
ury Department, shall be confiscated to the use of the 
Proceedings for ^ioverninent of the United States. And the proceedings 
condemnation and for the Condemnation and sale of any such property shall be 
*'*'^" instituted and conducted under the direction of the Secre- 

tary of the Treasury, iu the mode prescribed by the eighty- 
ninth and ninetieth sections of the act of March second, 
seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled " An act to re- 
gulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." And 
^vi^Z°pr"Pe '"1^5 Huy ugeut or agents, person or persons, by or through wliom 
comes unlawfully m^^lj^ property sliall come within the lines of the United 
to be punished. ^^^^^^ uuhiwfully, as aforcsaid, shall be judged guilty of a 



ACTS OF CONGRESS. 15 

misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof sliall be fined iu 
any sum not exceeding one tliousand dollars, or imprison- 
ment for any time not exceeding one year, or both, at the 
discretion of the court. And the fines, penalties, and for- Remission of 
feitures accruing under this act may be mitigated or re- ^^"^y"'''- ^'^^''• 
mitted iu the mode prescribed by the act of March three, 
seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, or in such mauuer, iu 
special cases, as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre- 
scribe. 

Sec. 5. And he it furtJier enacted, That the fifth section Pay of officers 
of the "Act to further provide for the collection of the g^jP^fi^^^i;";^;'! 
revenue upon the northern, northeastern, and northwestern recuon. 
frontier, and for other purposes," approved July fourteen, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-t^YO, shall be so construed as 
to allow the temporary officers which had been or may be 
appointed at ports w^hich have been or may be opened or 
established iu States declared to be in insurrection by the 
proclamation of the President on the first of July, eighteen isea, ch. i69, 5 
hundred and sixty-two, the .same compensation which by ^" 
law is allowed to permanent ofiicers of the same position, 
or the ordinary comiiensatiou of special agents, as the 
Secretary of the Treasury may determine. 

Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That it shall be the officers and soi- 
duty of every officer or private of the regular or volunteer Ijjf'^jp^ ^'J j.° ^ 
forces of the United States, or any officer, sailor, or marine or cotton, &c., 
in the naval service of the United States, upon the inland ^°,';'™ nllTiTi 
waters of the United States, who may take or receive auy agents. 
such abandoned property, or cotton, sugar, rice, or tobacco, 
from persons iu such insurrectionary districts, or have it 
under his control, to turu the same over to an agent 
appointed as aforesaid, who shall give a receipt therefor ; 
and iu case he shall refuse or neglect so to do, he shall be penalty for not 
tried by a court-martial and shall be dismissed from the bo doiug. 
service, or, if an officer, reduced to the ranks, or suffer 
such other punishment as said court shall order, with the 
approval of the President of the United States. 

Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That none of the pro- TWsRct not to 
visions of this act shall apjily to any lawful maritime prize madume prizes!^ 
by the naval forces of the United States. 

Approved, March 12, 1863. 



AN ACT in addition to the several acts concerning commercial inter-, 
course between loyal and insurrectionary States, and to provide for 
the collection of captured and abandoned property, and the preven- 
tion of frauds in States declared iu iusurrection. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of saies of cap - 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Jj^^^^fj p"o'*p "p'^°y 
sales of captured and abandoned property under the act may ^^„p!?°^'l'^ 
approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, Z>(k'^' 
may be made at such places, in States declared in insurrec- 
tion, as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
as well as at other places now authorized by said act. 



16 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 

Abandoned Sec. 2. Aud he it further enacted, That, in addition to tlie 
tonenu'nt" may be C'^l>t"i>Hl ^nd abandoned property to be received, collected, 
leased. aud disi)osed of, as provided in said act, the said aj^ents 

shall take charge of and lease, for periods not exceeding? 
twelve months, tlie abandoned lands, honses, and tenements 
within the districts therein named, and shall also provide, 
in such leases or otherwise, for the employment and .general 
welfare of all i)ersons within the lines of national military 
occupation within said insurrectionary States formerly held 
When property as sUivcs, Avlio are or shall become free. Property, real or 
abandoned*^^""*"^!^^'''^*^"'^^' ^^^''^^^ ^^^^ regarded as abandoned when the lawful 
owner thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom, aud 
engaged, eithei'in arms or otherwise, in aiding or encourag- 
ing the rebellion. 
Moneys from Sec. 3. Aud be U further enacted, That all moneys arising 
ifrpaiTlnTd^ the fi'oi" the Icasiug of abandoned lands, houses, and tene- 
Treasury. mcuts, or froui salcs of captured and abandoned property 

collected and sold in pursuance of said act or of this act, or 
from fees collected under the rules and regulations made by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the Presi- 
dent, dated respectively the twenty-eighth day of August, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the thirty-first day of 
March, and the eleventh day of September, eighteen hun- 
dred and sixty-three, or under any amendments or modifi- 
cations thereof, which have been or shall be made by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President, 
for conducting the commercial intercourse which has been 
or shall be licensed and permitted by the President, with 
and in States declared in insurrection, shall, after satisfying 
therefrom all proper and necessary expenses to be approved 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, be paid into the Treasury 
of the United States ; and all accounts of moneys received 
or expended in connection therewith shall be andited by 
Act of 1863, ch. the proper accounting officers of the Treasury. That the 
120, §1, extended, ^j,^^ scctiou of the "Act to provldc for the collection of 
abandoned property and for the prevention of fraud in in- 
surrectionary districts in the United States," approved 
March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby 
extended so as to include the descriptions of property men- 
tioned in an a(;t entitled "An act further to ])rovide for the 
collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," 
1861, ch. 3. approved July thirteen, eighteen huiuh-ed and sixty-one, and 
an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish 
treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property 
of rebels, and for other i)urposes," approved July seventeen, 
18C2, ch. 195. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, respectively ; and that the 
sales ])rovided for in said act first mentioned may be made 
at such place as may be designated by the Secretary of the 
Treasury. And section six of said iirst-mentione(l act is 
hereby amended so as to include every descrii)tion of prop- 
Act of i863, ch. erty mentioned in the acts of July thirteen, eighteen hun- 
i20,§6, amended. ^Ij.^.^1 ,^„^I sixty-oiic, and July seventeen, eighteen hundred 
and sixty-two aforesaid; and that all property, real or per- 

to'^bTd*eem\^d^*^'"^^' ^^^''^^'''"'^'^^ "^ ^''*^ '^^^'^ to whicli this is in addition, 

abandoned. sluUl be regarded as abandoned when the lawful owner 

thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom, and engaged, 



ACTS OF CONGRESS. 17 

either in arras or otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the 
rebellion. 

Sec. 4. And he it further enacted, That the prohibitions Pmhihitimis of 
and provisions of the act approved July thirteen, eighteen lo a°ppiy to wiiat! 
hnnclred and sixty-one, and of the acts amendatory or sup- 
plementary thereto, shall opply to all commercial intercourse 
by and between persons residing or being within districts 
within the present or future lines of national military occu- 
j)ation in the States or parts of States declared in insnrrec- 
tion, whether with each other or with persons residing or 
being within districts declared in insurrection and not with- 
in those lines; and that all persons within the United States, 
not native or naturalized citizens thereof, shall he subject ^j^^YIj."* jP^''*°^^j^ 
to the same prohibitions, in all commercial intercourse with buions. 
inhabitants of States or parts of States declared in insur- 
rection, as citizens of loyal States are subject to under the 
said act or acts. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever any part when parte of 
of a loyal State shall be under the control of insurgents, or ',",T,jPct'U'"'pr"oh^- 
shall be in dangerous proximity to places under their con- ''"i'^u'*- 
trol, all commercial intercourse therein and therewith shall 
be subject to the same prohibitions and conditions as are 
created by the said acts, as to such intercourse between 
loyal and insurrectionary States, for such time and to such 
extent as shall from tinu". to time become necessary to ]>ro- 
tect the public interests, and be directed by the Secretary 
of the Treasury, with the approval of the President. 

Sec. 6. And he it further enacted. That so much of the .^lo'^'' "*' ^is- 
fiftli section of the act approved May twenty, eighteen hun- fo,f"itme*i, &'c'''. 
dred and sixty-two, and the fourth section of the act 
approved March twelve, eighteen hundred aiul sixty three, 
as directs the manner of distributing fines, penalties, and 
forfeitures, is hereby repealed, and that, in lieu of the dis- Rf-peni of part 
tribution thereby directed to be made to informers, collect- 5*! 'fg|?3 'j.'jj' I'j^ 
ors, and other ofticers of the customs, the court decreeing 4.' 
condemnation may award such compensation to customs 
officers, informers, or other persons, for any service con- 
nected therewith, as will tend to promote vigilance in i)ro- 
tecting the public interests, and as shall be just and equit- 
able, in no case, however, to exceed the aggregate amount 
heretofore directed by the said fifth section. 

Sec. 7. And he it further enacted. That no property seized P'opertv taken 

. , ^i? j_i • 1 1 j_ 1? j_i rr -L "i Lij. J. on inland waters 

or taken upon any ot the inland waters ot the United States not to be deemed 
by the naval forces thereof shall be regarded as a maritime :"'"'V'^^''i5«!^l' 

• • 1 1 1 11 1 but, &c., lebj, ch. 

prize; but all property so seized or taken shall be promptly 120. 
delivered to the proper officers of the courts, or as ])rovided 
in this act and in the said act approved March twelve, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-three. 

Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That it shall be lawful Agents to pur- 
for the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the u,ii',Vd'^s,a,e/any 
President, to authorize agents to purchase for the United P'"'?'i"cta of states 

~ ill iQsurrt^ctiou 

states any products of States declared in insurrection, at 
such places therein as shall be designated by him, at such 
prices as shall be agreed on with the seller, not exceeding 
the market value thereof at the place of delivery, nor 
exceeding three-fourths of the market value thereof in the 

2 AC 



18 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 



Pur c h I sc-(.ity of Ncw Yoiiv at tlje latest quotations known to t1)e 
agent pnrchasino- : Provitlcrl, That no i)art of tlie purcbase- 
nioney for any products so purchased shall be ])aid or agreed 
to be paid out of any other fund than tbat arising from 
])ro])erty sold as cai)tured or abaiuloned, or i)urchased and 
sold under the provisions of this act. All proi)ert.y so pur- 
chased shall be forwarde<l lor sale at sucli place or places 
as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
and the moneys arising therefrom, after payuient of the 
Disposition of purcliase-monev and the other expenses connected there- 
cb-'sid."''^' ''"''with, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States ; 
and the accounts of all moneys so received and paid shall 
be rendered to, and audited by, the proper accounting offi- 
cers of the Treasury. 
Authority to Sec. 9. And hc it further enacted, That so much of section 
cia\Te*iati^nTwiih Ave of the act of thirteenth of duly, eighteen hundred and 
smtf-siniiiBunec- j^jxty onc, aforcsaid, as authorizes the I'rcsident, in his dis- 
cept.'<fcr"i8(ii.t'h. cretion, to license or i)ermit comniercinl relations in any 
^'^ "'• State or section the inhabitants of which are declared in a 

state of Insurrection, is hereby repealed, except so far as 
may be necessary to authorize supplying the necessities of 
loyal i)ersons residing in insurrectionary States within the 
lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the 
United States, as in<licated by published order of the com- 
manding general of the dei)artment or district so occupied; 
and, also, except so far as nmy be necessary to authorize 
])ersons residing within such lines to bring or send to market 
in the loyal States any jtroducts which they shall have pro- 
duced with their own labor or the labor of freedmen or 
others employed and paid by them, pursuant to rules relat- 
ing thereto which may be established under proper authority. 
And no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be taken into a 
State declared in insurrection, or trans])orted therein, ex- 
cept to and from such places, and to such monthly amounts, 
as shall have been ])revi<)usly agreed ui)on in writing by the 
cotnnianding general of the dei)artment in which such places 
are situated, and an ofticer designated by the Secretary of 
the Treasury foi- that ])urpose. 
Officers and gKC K). j^)/,] i,^> jf further enacted. That all officers and 

men in lanrl iind . ^ ,i .i i ' i i ^ j- i- j.i tt -i. i 

iiavi.i service pro- i)rivates ot tlic regular and volunteer lorces ot tlie United 
I"'''":'""'"'"" •'''"!• States, and all oHieers, sailors, and marines in the naval 

log in captured, . ' , •, -^u i ,• i • n- * l 

&c., property, scrvicc, are hereby ])rohil)ited Iroui buying or selling, trad- 
ing, or in any way dealing in the kind or description of 
property mentioned in this act and the act to which this is 
in addition, whereby to receive or expect any profit, beneiit, 
or advantage to himself, or any other i)erson directly or 
indirectly connected with him. And it shall be the duty 
of such oflicer, i)rivate, sailor, or imirine, when such property 
shall come into his possession or custody, or within his con- 
trol, to give notice thereof to some agent appointed by 
virtue of this act, and to turn the same over to such agent 

dofnT&c. ^"^ '° without delay. Any officer of the United States, civil, mili- 
tary, or naval, or any sutler, soldier, marine, or other per- 
son, who shall violate any jirovision of.this act, or who shall 
take or cause to be taken into a State declared to be in in- 



ACTS OF CONGRESS. 19 

surrection, or to auy otlier point, to be thence taken into 
sncli State, or who shall transport or sell, or otherwise dis- 
pose of therein, any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, 
except in pnrsuance of license and anthority of the Presi- 
dent, as provided in said fifth section of the act of July jgci, ch. 3, s 5. 
thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, aforesaid, and 
any officer or other person aforesaid who shall make any 
false statement or representation npon which license and 
anthority shall be granted for such transportation, sale, or 
other disposition, and any officer or other person aforesaid 
who shall, under any license or authority obtained, willfully 
and knowingly transport, sell, or otherwise dispose of any 
other goods, wares, or merchandise than sucli as are in good 
faith so licensed and authorized, orshall willfully and know- 
ingly transport, sell, or dispose of the same, or any portion 
thereof, in violation of the terms of such liceiise or autliority, 
or of any rule or regulation prescribed by the Secretary of 
the Treasury concerning the same, or shall be guilty of any 
act of embezzlement, of willful misappro[)riation of public 
or private money or property, of keeping false accounts, or 
of willfully making any false returns, or of any other act 
amounting to a felony, shall be lial)le to indictment as for a 
misdemeanor, and fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, 
and to punishment in the penitentiary not exceeding three 
years, before any court, civil or military, competent to try 
the same. And it shall be the dutv of the Secretarv of the investigations t& 

rr, ^ J.- J. 4.- i. ■ J-j. J. 1 • i.- i- prevent frauds aud 

Treasury, from time to time, to institute such investigations abuses, 
as may be necessary to detect and prevent frauds and abuses 
in the trade aud other transactions contemplated by this 
act or by the acts to which this is supplementary. And the 
agents making such investigations shall have power to 
compel the attendance of witnesses, and make examinations 
on oath. 

Sec. 11. And he it further enacted, That the Secretary of Rules and reg- 
the Treasury, with the approval of the President, shall umkeaif""' '"''"■"''' 
such rules and regulations as are necessary to secure the 
proper and economical execution of the provisions of this 
act, and shall defray all expenses of such execution from' 
the proceeds of fees imposed by said rules aud regulations, 
of sales of captured and abandoned property, and of sales 
hereinbefore authorized. 

Ai)proved, July 2, 1804. 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Preamble. Wlicreas ail insurrection against the Government of the 

United States lias broken out in the States of South Caro- 
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 
Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection 
of the revenue cannot be effectually executed therein con- 
formably to that provision of the Constitution which re- 
quires duties to be uniform throughout the United States; 
and whereas a combination of persons, engaged in such 
insurrection, have threatened to grant pretended letters 
of marque to authorize the bearers thereof to commit 
assaults on the lives, vessels, and i)roperty of good 
citizens of the country lawfully engaged in commerce on 
the high seas and in waters of the United States ; 
and whereas an executive proclamation has been already 
issued, requiring the persons engaged in these disorderly 
proceedings to desist therefrom, calling oat a miUtia force 
for the i)urpose of repressing the same, and coiiveiiingCon- 
gress in extraordinary session to deliberate and determine 
thereon : 
Blockade of jS'ow, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
states deciarld^'" ^^^^^'^^ Statcs, with a vicw to the same purposes before 
mentioned, and to the i)rotectiou of the public pea(;e, and 
the lives and i)roperty of quiet and orderly citizens pursuing 
their lawful occupations, until Congress shall have assem- 
bled and deliberated on the said unlawful proceedings, or 
until the same shall have ceased, have further <leemed it advis- 
able to set on fooc a blockade of the ports within the States 
aforesaid, in pursuance of the laws of the United States 
and of the law of nations in such ca.se provided. For this 
puri)ose a competent force will be p(>ste<l so as to prevent 
entrance and exit of vessels from the ports aforesaid. If, 
therefore, with a view to violate such blockade, a vessel 
shall ai)proach or shall attempt to leave either of the said 
ports, she will be duly wanietl by the commander of one of 
the blockading vessels, who will indorse on her register the 
tact and date of such warning, and if the same vessel shall 
again attempt to enter or leave the blockaded port, she will 
be captured and sent to the nearest convenient i)ort, for 
such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize, as may 
be deemed advisable. 

And I hereby proclaim and declare that if any person, 
under the pretended authority of the said States, or under 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 21 

any other pretense, sliall molest a vessel of the United 
States, or tlie persons or cargo on board of her, such per- 
son will be held amenable to the laws of the United States 
for the prevention and punishment of piracy. 

In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand, and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this nineteenth day of 
April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the United 
States the eighty-fifth. 

[L. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLK 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas; for the reasons assigned in my proclamation of Preamble. 
the nineteenth instant, a blockade of the ports of the States 
of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, 
Mississipi)i, and Texas was ordered to be established ; and 
whereas since that date public property of the United 
States has been seized, the collection of the revenue ob- tended ''to Vons of 
structed, and duly commissioned officers of the United other states. 
States, while engaged in executing the orders of their supe- 
riors, have been arrested and held in custody as prisoners, 
or have been impeded in the discharge of their official du- 
ties, without due legal process, by persons clattning to act 
under authorities of the States of Virginia and North Car- 
olina: 

An efficient blockade of the ports of those States will also 
be established. 

In witness wdiereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-seventh day 
of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
dred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the United 
States the eighty-fifth. 

[L. s.] ABRAHAM LmCOLK 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred Preamble. 
and sixty-one, the President of the United States, in view 
of au insurrection against the laAvs, Constitution, and Gov- 



22 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

ernnuMit of the. United Stntes, wliicli had broken out within 
the States of South Carolina, Geor.i;ia, Ahibauia, rh)rida, 
Mississip})!, Louisiana, and Texas, and in i)ursuance of the 
provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for calling 
forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress 
insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now 
in force for that purpose," api)roved February t\veuty-eiji"ht, 

1795, ch. 3(1. seventeen hundred and ninety-five, did call forth the militia 
to su[)i)ress said insurrection, andto cause the laws of the 
Union to be duly executed, and the insurgents have failed 
to disperse by the time directed by the President ; and 
whereas such insurrection has since broken out, and yet 
exists, within the States of Virginia, IS'orth Carolina, Ten- 
nessee, and Arkansas ; and whereas the insurgents in all 
the said States claim to act under the authority thereof, 
and such claim is not disclaimed or re[)udiated by the per- 
sons exercising the functions of government in such State 
or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which such com- 
binations exist, nor has such insurrection been suppressed 
by said States : 

Inhabitants of Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
'T'''!,"/'^*/"''? '?''" United States, in ])ursuaiice of an act of Congress ai)i)roved 

clared to be in m- ' . ' . * ' } 

surrection. 1861, J uly thutcen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, do hereby 

''^- ^' declare that the inhabitants of the said States of Georgia, 

South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala- 
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, ]\Iississippi, and Florida, 
(except the inhabitants of that part of the State of Virginia 
lying west of the Alleghany Mountains, and of such other 
parts of that State and the other States hereinbefore named 
as may maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Con- 
stitution, or may be, from time to time, occu[)ied ami con- 
trolled by forces of the United States engaged in the dis- 
persion of said insurgents,) are in a state of insurrection 
against tlie United States, and that all commeniial inter- 
Commerciai in- eoursc betwccii tlic saiuc and the inhabitants thereof, with 

with prohibited, tlic exceptious atorcsaid, and tlie citizens ot other States 

and other parts of the United States is unlawful, and will 

remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has 

Goods, &c., for- been suppressed; that all goods and chattels, wares and 

feited. merchandise, coming from any of said States, with the ex- 

ceptions aforesaid, into other i)arts of the United States, 
without the special license and permission of the President, 
through the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceeding to any 
of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or 
Ships, &c., foi-watei^7 together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the 

feited alter iifteen sauic, or coiiveviug pci'soiis to or froui said States, with said 

'^''^'' exceptions, wifl be forfeited to the United States ; and that, 

from and after fifteen days from the issuing of this procla- 
mation, all ships and vessels belonging in whole or in part 
to any citizen or inhabitant of any of said States, with said 
exceptions, found at sea, or in any port of the United States, 
will be forfeited to the United States; and I hereby enjoin 
Duty of district upon all district attorneys, marshals, and officers of the 

S&c"!' """"revenue, and of the military and naval forces of the United 
States, to be vigilant in the execution of said act, and in 
the euforceiuent of the penalties and forfeitures imposed or 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 23 

declared by it, leaving' any party who may think himself 
aggrieved thereby to liis application to the Secretary ot the 
Treasury for the remission of any penalty or forfeiture, Remission of 
which the said Secretary is authorized by hiw to grant, if, p^"^'*'*'^- ^s^^- 
in his judgment, the special circamstauces of any case shall ^ .^ • 
require such remission. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this sixteenth day of 
August, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty- 
one, and of the Independence of the United States of Amer- 
ica the eightv-sixth. 

[L. s.] ' ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, by my proclamation of the nineteenth of April, Preamble. 
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, it was declared 
that the ports of certain States, including those of Beaufort, 
in the State of ISTorth Carolina, Port Koyal, in the State of 
South Carolina, and New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, 
were, for reasons therein set forth, intended to be placed under 
blockade; and whereas the said ports of Beaufort, Port 
Eoyal, and New Orleans have since been blockaded; but as 
the blockade of the same ports may now be safely relaxed 
with advantage to the interests of commerce: 

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, Ports of Beau- 
President of the United States, pursuant to the authority in l",'!' Newo^hfaui 
me vested by the fifth section of the act of ^*^>ii8'ress ^^'j^i-^ct lo^umira' 
approved on the thirteenth of July last, entitled "An acttioil's^Mid regula- 
. further to jirovide for the collection of duties on imports '''^'"'^' 
and for other purposes," do hereby declare that the blockade i8ui, ch. 3, § 5. 
of the said ports of Beaufort, Port Koyal, and New Orleans 
shall so far cease and determine from and after the first day 
of June next, that commercial intercourse with those ports, 
except as to persons, things, ami information contraband 
of war, may, from that time, be carried on, subject to the 
laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in 
])ursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the 
Secretary of the Treasury in his order of this date, which is 
appended to this proclamation. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this twelfth day of May, 



24: PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

in the yearof oiir Lord oite tliousand eight Imndred and sixty - 
two, and of the Independence oftlie United States the eigbty- 
sixtli. 

[L. s.j ABRAHAM LINCOLX. 

By tlie President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



regulations relating to trade with ports opened by 
proclamation. 

Treasury Departmisnt, 

May 12, 1SG2. 
negniations as 1. To vegsels Clearing iroin foreign ports and destined to 
opened pJi-tr'*^ ports opened by tlie proclamation of the President of the 
United States of this date, namely, Beaufort, in North 
Carolina, Port lioyal, in South Carolina, and New Orleans, 
in Louisiana, licenses will be granted by consuls of the 
United States upon satisfactory evidence that the vessels 
so licensed will convey no i)ersons, property, or information 
contraband of war either to or from the said ports, which 
licenses shall be exhibited to the collector of the port to 
which said vessels may be res[)ectively bound, immediately 
on arrival, and, if required, to any oflicer in charge of the 
blockade, and on leaving either of said })orts every vessel 
will be re<iuired to have a clearance from the collector of the 
customs, according to law, showing no violation of the con- 
ditn)ns of the license. Any violation of said conditions will 
involve the forfeiture and conilemnation of the vessel and 
cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from any 
further privilege of entering the United States during the 
war for any purpose whatever. 
LicenBed. 9. To vcsscls of the United States clearing coastwise for 

the ports aforesaid, licenses can only be obtained from the 
Treasury Department. 
Blockade as t o 3, jji all otlicr res[)ects the existing blockade remains in 
reiaxed."'^ '^ ^° fuU forcc aud cttect as hitherto established and maintained, 
nor is it relaxed by the i>roclaniation, except in regard to 
the i)orts to which the relaxation is by that instrument 
expressly applied. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



BY the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Preamble . Whercas, iu and by the second section of an act of Con- 
1862, ch. 98, ^ 2. g.j.^,_,g passed on the' 7th day of June, A. D. 1862, entitled 
"An act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrec- 
tionary districts within the United States, and for other 



PROCLAMATIONS OP THE PRESIDENT. 25 

purposes," it was made the duty of the President to declare 
ou or before the first day of July tlieu next following, by his 
proclamatiou, iu what States aud parts of States insurrec- 
tion exists : 

Kow, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, certain states 
President of the United States of America, do hereby de-p?od^'med to^be 
Clare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Flor m rebellion. 
ida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkan- 
sas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia, 
except the following counties : H.incock, Brooke, Ohio, Mar- 
shal, Wetzel, Mar-ion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Pleas- 
ants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, 
Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilinore, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, 
Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, 
Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, 
Webster, Fayette, aud Raleigh, are now in insurrection and 
rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil authority of the 
United States is obstructed so that the provisions of the 
*'Act to provide increased revenue from imports, to pay the 
interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," ap- 
proved August tilth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, can- isei.ch. 45. 
uot be peaceably executed, and that the taxes legally charge- 
able upon real estate under the act last aforesaid, lying 
within the States and parts of States as aforesaid, together 
with a i)eualty of fifty per centum of said taxes, shall be a 
lieu upon the tracts or lots of the same, severally charged, 
till paid. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. 

Done in the city of Washington, this first day of July, iu 
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtj' - 
two, aiul of the Indepeudence of the United States of 
America the eighty-sixth. 

[L. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President : 
r. W, Seward, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

In pursuance of the sixth section of the act of Congress, Persons engag- 
eutitled "An act to suppress insurrection and to punish trea- ^^^^0°^ to^'celte 
son and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property ofaiaing therein and 
rebels, and for other puri)Oses," approved July 17, 18G2, and luegUnc".*" *'"''" 
which act, and the joint resolution exjilanatory thereof, are 
herewith published, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the 
United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons 
Avithin the contemplation of said sixth section to cease par- 
ticipating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the exist- 
ing rebellion, or any rebellion against the Government of i862,ch.i95,§c. 
the United States, and to return to their proper allegiauce 
to the United States, on pain of the forfeitures aud seizures 
as within and by said sixth section provided. 



2 6 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

In testimony whereof I have berennto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the [United States to be affixed. 

])one at the city of Washington this twenty-hfth day of 
July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight huuilred 
and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United 
States the eighty-seventh. 

[L. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President: 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Preamble. Whcrcas, iu pursuauce of the act of Congress, approved 

July 13, 1801, I did, by proclamation dated August 10, ISOl, 
1861, ch.3. declare that the inhabitants of tiie States of G-eorgia, South 
Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, 
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida (ex- 
cept the inhabitants of that part of Virginia lying- west 
of the Alleghany Mountains, and of such other parts of that 
State and the other States hereinbefore named as might 
* maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitu- 
tion, or might be, from time to time, occupied and controlled 
by forces of the United States engaged in the dispersion of 
said insurgents) were in a state of insurrection against the 
United States, and that all commercial intercourse between 
the same and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions 
aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts 
of the United States was unlawful, and would remain un- 
lawful, until such insurrection should cease or be su[)i)ressed, 
and that all goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, 
coming from any of said States,with the exceptions aforesaid, 
into other parts of the United States without the license and 
permission of the President, through the Se(;retary of the 
Treasury, or proceeding to any of said States, with the ex- 
ceptions aforesaid, by land or water, together with the ves- 
sel or vehicle (;onveying- the same to or from said States,witli 
the exceptions aforesaid, would be forfeited to the United 
States; and whereas experience has shown that the exceptions 
made in and by said i)roclamation embarrass the due en- 
forcement of said act of July 13, 1801, and the proper regu- 
lation of the commercial intercourse authorized by said act 
with the loyal citizens of said States : 
ExceptiouR in Now, thcretore, I, Abraham Liiuioln, President of the Uni- 
A^SiriG^'W!*^^^ States, do hereby revoke the said exceptions, and declare 
revoked. ' ' that the inliabitaiits of the States of (xeorgia. South Carolina, 
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Ar- 
inhaiiifants of kaiisas, Mississipi)i, Florida, and Virginia, (excei>r, the forty- 
ciared"t"o beTn'iu- tight couutics of Virginia designated as West Virginia, and 
Burrection. Bxccpt also the portsof New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal, 

and Beaufort in North Carolina,) are in a state of insurrec- 
tion against the United States, and that all commercial in- 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 27 

tercourse not licensed and condncted as provided in said ^^commMciai jn; 
act between tlie said States and the inhabitants thereof, ited, except, &c. 
with the exceptions aforesaid, and tlie citizens of other 
States and otlier parts of the United States, is unlawful, 
and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease 
or has been suppressed, and notice thereof has been duly 
given by proclamation ; and all cotton, tobacco, and 
other products, and all other goods and chattels, wares and cotton and 
merchandise, coming from anv of said States, with the ex- "'l."^'",. ',;':"''" °'*' 
ceptions aioresanl, into other parts of the United States, or less, &c. 
proceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions afore- 
said, without the license and permission of the President, 
through the Secretary of the Treasury, will, together with 
the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, be forfeited to the 
United States. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this second day of 
April, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty three, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the eighty- 
seventh. 

[L. S.J ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

iSecretary of JState. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, in my iiroclamation of the twenty-seventh of Preamble. 
April, 18G1, the i)orts of the States of Virginia and North 
Carolina were, for reasons therein set forth, placed under 
blockade ; and whereas the port of Alexandria, Virginia, 
has since been blockaded, but as the blockade of said port 
may now be safely relaxed, with advantage to the interests 
of commerce : 

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Abraham Lincoln, commercial in- 
President of the United States, pursuant to the authority ^[^^^^^I'^^^f/^'^*^^ 
in me vested by the fifth section of the act of Congress, ap- muted, subject, 
proved on the ISth of July, ISGl, entitled "An act further'^"- 
to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for 
other purposes," do hereby declare that the blockade of leei, ch. 3, § 5. 
the said port of Alexandria shall so far cease and determine, 
from and after this date, that commercial intercourse with 
said port, except as to persons, things, and information 
contraband of war, may from this date be carried on, sub- 
ject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations 
and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed 
by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order which is ap- 
pended to my proclamation of the 12th of May, 18G2. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day 



28 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

of Septoiuber, in the year of our Lord one tlionsaiid eight 
lumdred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of tbe 
United States the eighty-eighth. 

[L. s.j ABRAHAM LIXCOLlif. 

By the President : 

"William U. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Preamble. Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States 

it is provided that the President " shall liave power to 
grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the 
United States, except in cases of inipeaclinient;" and 
vrhereas a rebellion now exists whereby the loyal State 
governments of several States have for a long time been 
subverted, and many persons have committed and are 
now guilty of treason against the United States; and 
whereas, with reference to said rebellion and treason, 
laws have been enacted by Congress declaring forfeitures 
and confiscation of property and liberation of slaves, all 
upon terms and conditions therein stated, and also declaring* 
that the President was thereby authorized at any time 
thereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may 
have participated m the existing rebellion, in any State or 
part thereof, pardon and amnesty, with such exceptions and 
at such times and on such conditions as he may deem expe- 
dient for the public welfare; and whereas the congressional 
declaration for limited and conditional pardon accords with 
well-established judicial exposition of the i)ardouing [)ower; 
and whereas, with reference to said rebellion, the President 
of the United States has issued several proclamations, 
with provisions in regard to the liberation of slaves; and 
whereas it is now desired by some persons heretofore 
engaged in said rebellion to resume their allegiance to the 
United States, and to reinaugurate loyal State governments 
within and for their respective States: 
Pardon granted Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
lion'npoa^ coudi- Statcs, do proclaim, declare, and make known to all persons 
tion, &c. y^i^Q have, directly or b^' im[)lication, participated in the 

existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a 
full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, 
with restoration of all rights of property', except as to slaves, 
and in property cases where rights of third parties shall 
have intervened, and upon the condition that every such 
person shall take and subscribe an oath, and thenceforward 
keep and maintain said oath inviolate; and which oath shall 
be registered for permanent preservation, and shall be of the 
tenor and effect following, to wit: 

Form of oath. "I, , do solcmidy swcar, in presence of 

Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, 
protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 29 

and the Union of the States thereunder ; and that I will, in 
like manner, abide by and faithfally support all acts of Con- 
gress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to 
slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held 
void by Congi'ess, or by decision of the Supreme Court; 
and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully sup- 
port all proclamations of the President made during the 
existing rebellion having reference to slaves, so long and so 
far as not modified or declared void by decision of the 
Supreme Court: so helj) me God." 

The persons excepted from the benefit of the foregoing persons except- 
provisions are all who are, or shall have been, civil or diplo- '''^ ^''°"^ amnesty, 
matic officers or agents of the so-called confederate govern- 
ment; all who have left judicial stations under the United 
States to aid the rebellion; all who are, or shall have been, 
military or naval ofticers of said so-called confederate gov- 
ernment above the rank of colouel in the army, or of lieu- 
tenant in the navy; all who left seats in the United States 
Congress to aid the rebellion; all who resigned commissions 
in the Army or Navy of the United States, and afterwards 
aided the rebellion; and all who have engaged in any way 
in treating colored persons, or white persons in charge of 
such, otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war, and which 
l>ersons may have been found in the United States service 
as soldiers, seamen, or in any other capacity. 

And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, Re-estabUsh- 
that whenever, in any of the States of Arkan^AS, Texas, "^^Z^iftn^^v'. 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Flor- *»•» states. 
ida, .South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of per- 
sons, not less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast 
in such State at the presidential election of the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each having 
taken the oath aforesaid, and not having since violated it, 
and being a qualified voter by the election law of the State 
existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, 
and excluding all others, shall re-establish a State govern- 
ment which shall be republican, and in nowise contravening 
said oath, such shall be recognized as the true government 
of the State, and the State shall receive thereunder the ben- 
efits of the constitutional provision w-hich declares that 
"the United States shall guarantee to every State in this 
Union a republican form of government, and shall protect 
each of them against invasion; and on application of the 
legislature or the executive (when the legislature cannot be 
convened) against domestic violence.'' 

And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that ^'■°^^^°" ^^ *° 
any i^rovisiou which may be adopted by such State govern- 
ment in relation to the freed people of such State, which 
shall recognize aiul declare their permanent freedom, pro- 
vide for their education, and which nmy yet be consistent, 
as a temporary arrangement, with their present condition 
as a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not be 
objected to by the national Executive. And it is suggested gtatt™to be' 
as not improper that, in constructing a loyal State govern- t'''°«'i- 
ment in any State, the name of the State, the boundary, the 
subdivisions, the constitution, and the geueral code of laws, 



re- 



30 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

as before the rebellion, be maintained, subject only to the 
modifications nmde necessary by the conditions herein))e- 
Ibre stated, and such others, if any, not contravening said 
conditions, and which may be deemed expedient by those 
framing the new State government. 
Proclamation To avoid misunderstanding, it may be proper to ^ay 
ce.-taTn To^y al ^^^^'1^ tliis proclamation, so far as it rela'tes to State govern- 
states, &c. nu^nts, has no reference to States where loyal State govern- 

ments have all the while been maintained. And for the same 
reason, it may be proper to further say that whether menj- 
bers sent to Congress from any State shijll be admitted to 
seats constitutionally rests exclusively with tlie respective 
Houses, and not to any extent with the Executive. Aud still 
further, that this proclamation is intended to present the 
people of the States wherein the national authority has 
been suspended, and loyal State governments have been 
subverted, a mode in and by which the national authority 
and loyal State governments nuiy be re-established within 
said States, or in any of them ; and, while the mode pre- 
sented is the best the P^xecutive can suggest, with his pres- 
ent impressions, it must not be understood that no other 
l)0ssible mode would be acceptable. 

Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the 
eighth day of December, A. D. one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United 
States of America the eighty-eighth. 

[L. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLK. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

A PROCLAMATION. 

Preamble. Whcrcas, by my ])roclamation of the nineteenth of April, 

one thousan<l eight luindred aud sixty-one, the ports of the 

States of South Carolina, (leorgia, Alabama, Fh)rida, ]Mis- 

sissippi, Louisiana, and Texas were, for reasons therein set 

forth, placed under blo(;kade; and whereas the port of 

Brownsville, in the district of Brazos Santiago, in the State 

of Texas, has since been blockaded, but as the bloclcade of 

said i)ort may now be safely relaxed with advantage to the 

interests of commerce : 

Blockade of Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, 

f/a°e°8of!iMhI"PrPsideiit of the United States, pursuant to the authority 

*i86i h 3 5 - ^'^ "'^ vested by the tiftli section of the act of Congress, ap- 

'^ ' ' proved on the 13th of July, 1801, entitled "An act further 

to provide for tlie collection of duties on imports, aftd for 

other purposes," do hereby declare that the blockade of the 

said port of Brownsville shall so far cease and determine 

from and after this date, tliat commercial intercourse with 

said ])ort, except as to j)ersons, things, and information 

hereinafter specified, nuiy, from this (kite, be carried on, 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 31 

subject to the laws of the United States, to the regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and, until the 
rebellion shall have been suppressed, to such orders as may 
be promulgated by the general commanding- the depart- 
ment, or by an ofticer duly authorized by him and com- 
manding at said port. This proclamation does not authorize certain ship. 
or allow the shipment or conveyance of persons in, or intend- !J|[owed.'^'^' ' "°' 
ing to enter the service of the insurgents, or of things or in- 
formation intended for their use, or for their aid or comfort, 
nor, except upon the permission of the Secretary of War, or 
some officer duly authorized by him, of the following- pro- 
hibited articles, namely, cannon, mortars, fire-arms, pistols. List of probi b - 
bombs, grenades, powder, saltpeter, sul[)hur, balls, bullets, '*^'^'"*"^'''" 
pikes, swords, boarding-caps, (always excepting- the quantity 
of the said articles which may be necessary for the defense 
of the ship and those who compose the crew,) saddles, 
bridles, cartridge-bag- material, percussion and other caps, 
clothing- adapted for uniforms, sail-cloth of all kinds, hemp 
and cordage, intoxicating- drinks, other than beer and light 
native wines. 

To vessels clearing from foreign ports and destined to the Licenses to ves- 

, n 1^ -11 ^ T 1 ^1 • 1 i-- T sels Irom foreign 

l>ort ot Brownsville, opened by this proclamation, licenses pons. 
Avill be granted by consuls of the United States upon satis- 
factory evidence that the vessel so licensed will convey no 
persons, property, or information excepted or prohibited 
above, cither to or from the said jiort; which licenses shall 
be exhibited to the collector of said port immediately on 
arrival, and, if required, to any officer in charge of the 
blockade ; and, on leaving said port, every vessel will be 
required to have a clearance from the collector of the cus- 
toms, according- to law, showing- no violation of the condi- 
tions of the license. Any violations of said conditions will ^iJ„\"lf\'°°^^ork 
involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and forfeiture, 
cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from any 
further privilege of entering the United States during- the 
war for any purpose whatever. 

In all respects, except as herein s]ieci£ied, the existing- 
blockade remains in full force and effect as hitherto estab- 
lished and maintained, nor is it relaxed by this i)roclamation 
except in regard to the port to which relaxation is or has 
been expressly aj)i)lied. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this eighteenth day of 
February, in the year of our Lord one thonsand eight hun- 
dred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United 
States the eighty-eighth. 

[L. S.] ABRAHAM LINCOLi^. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



32 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Preamble. Wliercas, by my i)roclaination of the nineteenth of April, 

one thonsand eight hnndred and sixty-one, it was dechired 
that tlie ports of certain States, inchidiiig those of Norfolk, in 
the State of V^irginia, and Fernandina and Pensacola, in the 
State of Florid;i, were, for tlie reasons therein set forth, in- 
tended to be i)laced nnder blockade; and whereas the said 
ports were snbseqnently blockaded accordingly, bnt having, 
for some time past, been in the military possession of the 
United States, it is deemed advisable that they shonld be 
opened to domestic and foreign commerce: 
Blockade of Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, 
din?a;,d^re""ri;JPre'Sideiit of the United States, pursuant to the authority 
cola to so far cease ill my yostcd bv tlic tlfth scctiou of the act of Cougrcss ap- 
proved on the Kith of July, 18(J1, entitled " An act further 
to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for 
other i)nri)oses," do hereby declare that the blockade of the 
said ports of Norfolk, Fernandina, and I'ensacola shall so 
far cease and determine, from and after the tirst day of De- 
cember next, that commercial intercourse with those ports, 
except as to persons, things, and information contraband of 
war, may from that time be carried on, subject to the laws 
of the United States, to the limitations and in pursuance of 
the regidations which may be i)rescribed by the Secretary 
of the Treasury, and to such military and naval regulations 
as are now in force, or may hereafter be found necessary. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this uineteentli day of 
Novend)er, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the 
United States the eighty-ninth. 

[L. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



Treasury DEPART]\rENT, 

November 23, 1804. 

REGULATIONS RELATING TO TRADE FROM FOREIGN PORTS 
WITH PORTS OPENED 35Y PROCLAZMATION. 

1. To vessels clearing from foreign ports and destined to 
ports opened by tlie i)i()clamation of the President of the 
United States dated the I'Jth instant — namely, Norfolk, in 
the State of Virginia, and Fernandina and Peusacohi, in 
the State of Florida, and other ports heretofore opened by 
])roclamation — licenses will be granted by consuls of the 
United States upon satisfactory evidence that the vessel so 
licensed will convey no persons, property, or information 
contraband of war, either to or from the said ports, which 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 33 

license shall be exhibited to the collector of the port to 
which said vessels may be respectively bound immediately 
on arrival, and if required, to any officer in charge of the 
blockade. And on leaving either of said |)orts, ev^ery ves- 
sel will be required to have a clearance from the collector of 
the customs according to law, sliowing no violation of the con- 
ditions of the license. Any violation of said conditions 
will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel 
and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from 
any further [)rivilegeof entering the United States during 
the war for any pur[)ose whatever. 

2. In all other respects the existing blockade remains in 
-full force and eifect as hitherto established and maintained, 
nor is it relaxed by the pr'^clamation except in regard to 
the ports to which the relaxation is by that instrument ex- 
pressly applied. 

W. P. FESSEXDEX, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



EY THE riTESIDEXT OE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, by my proclamations of the nineteenth and preamble. 
twenty-seventh days of Ai)ril, one thousand eight hundred 
iind sixty-one, the ])orts of the United States in the States 
of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were 
declared to be subject to blockade; but whereas the said 
blockade has, in consequence of actual military occu|)ation 
by this Government, since been conditionally set aside, or 
relaxed, in respect to the i)orts of Norfolk and Alexandria, 
in the State of Virginia; Beaufort, in the State of North 
Carolina; Port Koyal, in the State of South Carolina; 
Pensacola and Fernaudina, in the State of Florida ; and 
New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana; and whereas, isei, ch 2,^i. 
by the fourth section of the act of Congress, approved on 
the thirteenth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty one, 
entitled " An act further to provide for the collection of 
duties on imports, and for other purposes," the President, 
for the reasons therein set forth, is authorized to close (cer- 
tain ports of entry : 

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, certain ports 
President of the United States, do hereby proclaim that the '^'''*'"^- 
l)orts of Richmond, Ta|>pahannock, Cherrystoii'^, Yorktowu, 
and Petersburgh, in Virginia; of Camden, (Elizabeth City,) 
Edenton, Plymouth, Washington, New Berne, Ocracoke, and 
Wilmington, in North Carolina; of Charleston, Georgetown, 
and Beaufort, in South Carolina; of Savannah, St. Mary's, 
and Brunswick, (Darien,) in Georgia; of Mobile, in Ala- 
bama; of Pearl River, (Shieldsbarongh,) Natchez, and 
Vickshurgh, in Mississippi; of Saint Augustine, Key West, 
Saint Mai'ks, (Port Leon,) S lint Jolms, (Jacksonville,) and 
Appalachicola, in Florida; of Teche, (Franklin,) in Louisiana; 
3 A c 



34 PKOCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

of Galveston, La Salle, Brazos de Santiago, (Point Isabel,) 
and Brownsville, in Texas, are hereby closed, and all right 
of importation, warehousing, and other privileges shall, in 
respect to the poits aforesaid, cease until they shall have 
again been opened by order of the President; and if, while 
said i)orts are so closed, any ship or vessel from beyond the 
United States, or having on board any articles subject to 
duties, shall attempt to enter any su(di ])ort, the same, to- 
gether with its tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo, shall 
be forfeited to tlie United States. 

Ifi "witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this eleventh day of 
April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-live, and of the Independence of the United 
States of America the eightv-niuth. 

[L. s.] "^ ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President: 

William II. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, by my i:»roclamation of this date, the ]iort of 
Key West, iu the State of Florida, was inadvertently in- 
cluded among those which are not 0})en to commerce: 

Now, therefore, belt known that I, Abraham Lincoln, Presi- 
d(mtof the United States, do heieby declare and nuike known 

wes'tto rVmalu^''"^ ^^'^ '*''^'*' 1**^*^^ ^* ^^^^ West is, aud shall remain open^ 

©pen. to foreign and domestic commerce ui)on the same conditions^ 

by which that commerce has there hitherto been governed. 

In testimony wheieof I have hereunto set my hand aud 

caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. 

Done at the city ot Washington, this eleventh day of 
April, in the year of our Lord one tliousiuid eight hundred 
and sixty-tive, and of the Independence of the United States- 
of America the eighty-ninth. 

[li. s.] ABEAUAM LINCOLN. 

By the President: 

William JI. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

A PROCLAMATION. 

Pre.imbie. Wlicrcas, by the ])roclamation of the President of the 

eleventh day of April last, ceitain i)oits of the United States 
therein specitied, which had previously been siibj<'('t to 
blockade, were, lor objects of public safety, declared, in con- 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 35 

formity with previous special legislation of Oougress, to be 
closed against foreign commerce during the national will, 
to be thereafter expressed and made known by the Presi- 
dent; and whereas events and circumstances have since 
occurred wliicli, in my judgment, render it expedient to 
remove that restriction, except as to the ports of Galveston, 
La Salle, Brazos de Santiago, (Point Isabel,) and Browns- 
ville, in the State of Texas : 

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Andrew Job n so n, ^^ Ports formerly 
President of the United States, do hereby declare that the L^cept, &c°^^°^ ' 
ports aforesaid, not excepted as above, shall be open to for- 
eign commerce from and after the tirst day of July next; 
that commercial intercourse with the said ports may, from 
that time, be carried on, subject to the laws of the United 
States, and in pursuance of such regulations as may be pre- 
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. If, however, any 
vessel from a foreign port shall enter any of the before- 
named excepted ports in the State of Texas, she will con- 
tinue to be held liable to the penalties prescribed by the act 
of Congress a])proved on the thirteenth day of July, eight- 
een hundred and sixty-one, and the j)ersons on board of her 
to such i)enalties as may be incurred, pursuant to the laws 
of war, for trading or attem[)ting to trade with an enemy. 

And I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, Belligerent 
do hereby declare and make known that the United States"^ '"^ '* °^^^' 
of America do, henceforth, disallow to all persons trading, 
or attempting to trade, in any ports of the United States in 
violation of the laws thereof, all pretense of belligerent 
rights and privileges; and I give notice that, from the date 
of this proclamation, all such offenders will be held and 
dealt with as pirates. 

It is alse ordered that all restrictions ui)on trade hereto-,. C'^''**''' restric- 

r. ■ T-ji J •, oi TT-,ir-i.j ,.tious upon trade 

tore imposed in the territory of the United States east ot removed. 
the Mississippi River, save those relating to contraband of 
war, to the reservation of the rights of the United States to 
property purchased in the territory of an enemy, and to the 
twenty-five per cent, upon purchases of cotton, be removed. 
All provisions of the internal revenue law will be carried 
into efl'ect under the proper officers. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-second day 
of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States 
of America the eighty-ninth. 

[L. s.] . ^ ANDREW JOHNSON. 

By the President : 
W. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, by my proclamation [Executive Order] of the Post, p. isi. 
twenty-ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and P''«^™'''«- 



36 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

sixty-five, jill restrictions upon internal, domestic, and com- 
mercial intercourse, with certain exceptions therein speci- 
fied and set Ibrth, were removed " in >such parts of the 
States of Tennessee, Virginia, !N'orth Carolina, South Caro- 
lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so nnich 
of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississi])])i River, as shall 
be embi'aced within the linesof national militaiy occupation :" 
and whereas, by my proclamation of the twenty-second 
of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty -five, for rea- 
sons therein given, it was declared that certain i)orts of the 
Cnited States which had been previously closed against 
foreign commerce, should, with certain specified excep- 
tions, be reopened to such commerce, on and after the first 
day of July next, subject to the laws of the United States 
and in pursuance ot such regulations as might be ])re- 
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury ; and wiiereas 
I am satisfactorily informed that dangerous combinations 
against the laws of the United States no longer exist 
within the State of Tennessee; that the insurrection here- 
tofore existing within said State has been suppressed; 
that within the boundaries thereof the authority of the Uni- 
ted States is undisputed ; and that such officers of the Uni- 
ted States as have been duly commissioned are in the undis- 
turbed exercise of their official functions : 
ReKtrictioiis on Now, tlicrefore, be it known, that I, Andrew. Johnson, 
iiLLtppi °RiverPr(^si(lent of the United States, do hereby declare that all 
removed, contra- j.,.^(^pi(.J3i,)„^ upou internal, douicstic, and coastwise inter- 
band of war, &.C,., 1,1 1 .1 1 i- 1 J. V 

excepted. coursc aud trade, and upon the removal ot products ot 

States heretofore declared in insurrection, reserving and 
excepting only those rehiting to contraband of war, as here- 
inafter recited, and also those which relate to the reserva- 
tion of the rights of the United States to property purchased 
in the territory of an enemy, heretofore imposed in the ter- 
ritory of the United States east of the Mississippi Eiver, are 
annulled, and I do hereby direct that they be forthwith re- 
moved; and that on and after the tirst day of July next all 
restrictions upon foreign commerce with said j)orts, with 
the exception and reservation aforesaid, be likewise re- 
moved ; and that the commerce of said States shall be con- 
ducted under the sui)ervision of the regularly api)ointed 
officers of the customs provided by law ; and su(;h officers 
of the <!Ustoms shall receive any captured and abandoned 
])ro])erty that may be turned over to them, under the law, 
l)y the military or naval ftu'ces of the United States, and 
dispose of such i)ro])erty as shall be directed by the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury. The following articles contraband of 
war are excepted from theeffectof this proclamation : Arms, 
ammuniticm, all articles from which ammunition is made, 
and gray uniforms and (;loth. 
Tbeinsurreo- A)i(l 1 hereby also proclaim and declare that the insurrec- 
tion in TemiesseetiQ,, j^(^ f.,j, .^^ jf, rclatcs to aud witliiu the State of Tennes- 

declared Hup ■ ' - , , •, , ,. . i • i o^ .■ j? m 

presHPd. see and the inhabitants ot the said State of Tennessee as re- 

organized and constituted under their recently adopted con- 
stitution and r(M)rganizati()ii, and acce])ted by tliem, is su])- 
pressed, and therefore, also, that all the disabilities and 
disqualifications attaching to said State and the inhabitants 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 37 

thereof cousequeut upou any proclamations, issued by ^'ir- 
tue of the fifth section of the act entitled "An act to farther i^ei, ch. 3. 
provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other 
I)urposes," approved the thirteenth day of July, one thousand 
eight hundred and sixty-one, are removed. 

But notbino; herein contained shall be considered or con- Penalties, &c., 

, 1 • • 1 • ■ • • i> , 1 1 for treaso n not 

strued as in any wisechangingor impairing- any 01 the penal- impaiied. 
ties and forfeitures for treason heretofore incurred under 
the laws of the United States, or any of the provisions, re- 
strictions, or disabilities set forth in my proclauiation, bear- 
ing date the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand eight 
hundred and sixty-five, or as impairing existing regulations 
for the suspension of the habeas corpus, and the exercise of 
military law in cases where it shall be necessary for the 
general public safety and welfare during the existing insur- 
rection ; nor shall this proclamation affect, or in any way Former procia- 
impair, any laws heretofore passed by Congress, and dulyjJf^Ho/.cg'^''' *" 
approved by the President, or any proclamations or orders, 
issued by him, during the aforesaid insurrection, abolishing 
slavery, or in any way affecting the relations of slavery, 
whether of persons or of property; but, on the contrary, all 
such laws and proclamations heretofore made or issued are 
expressly saved, and declared to be in fall force and virtue. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be afiixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this thirteenth day of 
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States 
of America the eighty-ninth. 

[L. s.] ' ANDREW JOHNSON. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, by the proclamations of the President, of the preamble. 
nineteenth and twenty-seventh of April, eighteen hundred 
and sixty-one, a blockade of certain ports of the United 
States was set on foot; but whereas the reasons for that 
measure have ceased to exist : 

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, Blockade re 
President of the United States, do hereby declare and pro- «<"'"''<"i- 
claim the blockade aforesaid to be rescinded as to all the 
ports "aforesaid, including that of Galveston and other ports 
west of the Mississippi Biver, which ports will be open to 
foreign commerce on the first of July next, on the terms 
and conditions set forth in my proclamation of the twenty- 
second of May last. It is to be understood, however, that Purpo8«» ot the 
the blockade thus rescinded was an international measure ^*"^''*"^*' 
for the purpose of j)rotecting the sovereign rights of the 



38 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

United States. The greater or less subversion of civil 
authority in the region to which it applied, and the imprac- 
ticability of at once restoring that in due efficiency, may, 
for a season, make it advisable to employ the Army and 
Navy of the United States towards carrying the laws into 
efiect, whenever such employment may be necess-'ary. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-third day of 
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States 
of America the eighty-ninth. 

[L. s.] ANDREW JOHNSON. 

By the President: 
W. Hunter, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

A PROCLAMATION. 

Preamble. Whcri'as it luis beeii the desire of the General Govern- 

ment of the United States to restore unrestricted commer- 
cial intercourse between and in the several States as 
soon as the same could be safely done, in view of resistance 
to the authority of the United States by combinations ot 
armed insurgents ; and whereas that desire has been shown 
Executive or-iu my jiroclamations of the twenty-ninth of April, one thou- 
oK.p. ■ gajid eigiit linndred and sixty-five, the thirteenth of June, 
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the twenty- 
third of June, one thousand eiglit hundred and sixty-five; 
and whereas it now seems expedient and proper to re- 
move restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise 
trade and commercial intercourse between and within the 
States and Territories west of the Mississippi Kiver : 
tra^e^wesfof the Now, therefore, be it known, that 1, Andrew Johnson, 
MisBismppi River President of the United States, do hereby declare that all 
removed. restrictious upon internal, domestic, and coastwise inter- 

course and trade, and upon the purchase and removal of 
products of States and parts of States and Territories here- 
tofore declared in insurrection, lying west of the Mississippi 
River, (excepting only those relating to property heretofore 
purchased by the agents, or captured by or surrendered to 
the forces of the United States, and to the transportation 
thereto or therein, on private account, of arms, ammunition, 
all articles from which ammunition is made, gray uniforms 
and gray cloth,) are annulled ; and I do hereby direct that 
they be forthwith removed ; and also that the commerce of 
such States and i)arts of States shall be conducted under 
the supervision of the regularly appointed officers of the 
customs, [who] shall receive any captured and abandoned 
property that may be turned over to them, under the law, 
by the military or naval forces of the United States, and 
dispose of the same in accordance with instructions on the 
subject, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



39 



In testimony wliereof I have lierennto set my hand and 
<cause(l the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fonrth day of 
Jnne, in the year of our Lord one tliousand eij^ht hundred 
and sixty-five, and of tlie Independence of the United States 
of America the eighty-ninth. 

[L. s.] AXDllEW JOHNSOK. 

J3y the President : 
W. Hunter, 

Acting tSccretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, by my proclamations of the thirteenth and Pfeambie. 
twenty-fourth of June, one thousand eight hundred and 
sixty-five, removing restrictions, in part, upon internal, 
domestic, and coastwise intercourse and trade with those 
States recently declared in insurrection, certain articles 
were excepted from the effect of said pro(!lamations as con- 
traband of. war; and whereas the necessity for restricting 
trade in said articles has now, in a great measure, ceased: 

It is hereby ordered that on and after the 1st dav of Sep- ah restrictions 
tember, 18G5, all restrictions aforesaid be removed, so that*'''*'"^'^""'""^"**- 
the articles declared by the said proclaiiuitions to be contra- 
band of war may be imported into and sold in said States, 
subject only to such regulations as the Secretary of the 
Treasury may prescribe. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of 
August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States 
of America the ninetieth. 

[L. s.] ANDREW JOHNSON. 

By the President: 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



Treasury Department, 

September 1, 1S65. 
The foregoing proclamation is hereby promulgated for the 
information and guidance of officers of the Treasury Depart- 
ment. 

In conformity with its terms, articles heretofore regarded 
as prohibited may be trans[)orted to places in States hereto- 
fore declared in insurrection without any restrictions, except 
guns, pistols, and ammunition. Applications for the ship- 
ment of these should be made, in writing, to the proper 
officers of the customs, who will forward them to the Depart- 
ment for its decision, accom})anied with such recommenda- 
tions as they may be disj)osed to make. 

H. M'CULLOCH, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



EXECUTIVE ORDER. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 

commpicmi in- Coiisitleiiiifi' tlint the existing circninstances of tlie conn- 
tercourse licensed try allow a partial lestonit ioii of couimercial intereoiuse 
between the inhabitants of those i)aits of the United States 
heietofoie declaied to be in insurrection and the citizens of 
the loyal States of the Union^ and exercising' the authority 
and discretion confided to inc by the act of Congress 
approved July 13, 1801, entitled "An act further to pro- 

1861, cb. 3. viele lor the collection of duties on imports, and for other 
purposes," I heieby license and permit such coniruercial 
intercourse, in all cases within the rules and regulations 
"svhich have beeu or may be prescribed by the Secretary of 
the Treasury lor the conducting and carrying on of the 
same on the inland waters and wavs of the United States. 

ABKAHxiM LINCOLN. 
"^ Washington, Fehrnary 28, 18C2. 



EULES AND EEGTTLATIONS CONCERNING INTERNAL COM- 
MERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

By virtue of the authority confided to the Secretary of 
the Treasury by the act of Congress ap])roved July 
i86i,cb. 3, 13, 1801, entitled "An act further to provide for the 
collection of duties on imports, and for other puri)oses," and 
in pursuance of the li(;ense of the President of the United 
States, i)ermitting commercial intercourse, in certain cases, 
under said act, the following rules and regulations are 
hereby prescribed by the Secaetarj^ of the Treasury for con- 
ducting internal commercial intercourse between the in- 
liabitants of those i)arts of the United States heretofore de- 
clared by the l*resident to be in insurrection and the citi- 
zens of the loyal States of the Union ; which rules and reg- 
ulations are to remain in force so long as the condition of 
liostilities shall continue, unless sooner modified or revoked: 

Treasury DErARTMENT, March 1, 1802. 

1st. All licenses shall be issued by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, ftni all api)lications therefor jnust be made in 
writing to him, stating specifically the purposes for which 
the license is desired ; and, if for general or special trade, 
setting forth the character and aggregate value of the mer- 
chandise to be transported, the destination thereof, and the 
proposed route of transportation ; ami also the character of 
the merchandise, if any, desired in exchange, with the 
proposed route of transit thereof, and its destination. 

2d. Before the delivery of any license, the party therein 
permitted to trade shall execute a bond to the United States^ 
with sullicicnt sttreties,in the penal sum of at least twice the 
amount of the trade so licensed, which bond shall be sub- 



INTERNAL COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 41 

ject to sncli approval and conditioned in such terms as sliall 
be specified in the license. 

3d, All transportation to be made bj" virtae of any license 
shall be made under permits, to be issued by such dulj^ 
authorized offl(;ers of tlie Treasury Department as shall be 
designated in the license, which ])ermits shall specify the 
number and kind of packages, with the marks thereon, and, 
in general terms, the character thereof. 

4th. When ap[)]ication is made for a transportation per- 
mit, the applicant shall fde with the ofhcer authorized by 
the license to grant such permit a copy of the license under 
which ai)plication is made, which copy shall be com- 
pared with the original and certified by such oflicer; and 
also correct invoices, in dui)licate, signed by the consignor, 
showing the actual values of the merchandise at the place 
of purchase; and also a statement, in duplicate, of the route 
of transit and destination of the merchandise so to be trans- 
ported, and the consigiiee thereof. The aj)plicant shall also 
make and file with such officer an affidavit that the values 
are correctly stated in the invoices, and that the packages 
contain nothing except as stated therein, and that tiie mer- 
chandise so permitted to be transported shall not, nor shall 
any i)art thereof, be disposed of by him or by his authority or 
connivance in violation of the terms of the license. 

5th. All transportation shall be permitted and all ex- 
changes supervised, either at Cincinnati, Louisville, Paducah, 
Saint Louis, or such other place as may hereafter be speci- 
fied by the Secretary of the Treasury. Transportation per- 
mits shall be granted by the surveyor of the port whence 
the transit commenced, or by other officers named in the 
license, and shall be api)roved and countersigned by such 
other officer as shall be named in the li('ense for that purpose ; 
and all exchanges shall be supervised by such officer as may 
be designated for that purpose in the license; and the 
amount of each permit shall, at the date of its issue, be in- 
dorsed upon the original license. 

Gth. All packages whatsoever, before being permitted to 
go into any part of the United States heretofore declared by 
the President to be in insurrection, shall be examined by a 
duly authorized otficer, which examination shall be certified 
and approved by such officer as shall be specified in the 
license. 

7th. For each permit granted under the provisions of these 
rules and regulations there shall be charged and collected 
one-half of one per cent, upon the value of the merchandise 
so permitted at the place of purchase, which shall be col- 
lected by the officer granting the i)erniit before delivery 
thereof. 

8th. All officers acting under these rules shall keep an 
accurate record of all their transactions under the several 
licenses granted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall 
make weekly reports to him in relation thereto, as much in 
detail as practicable; transmitting with such re[)orts a list 
of all jjermits granted, and one of the duplicate invoices and 
statements, upon which shall be indorsed the date of the 



42 INTERNAL COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

authority under which such permit was grnuted. Weekly 
returns shall be made of all fees and emoluments received. 
9th. All licenses and permits shall be liable to moditica- 
tion or revocatiou by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



circular to customs officers. 

Treasury Depart^ient, 

March 29, 1802. 

It is desirable to remove, as far as may properly be done, 
the restrictions njion commercial intercourse between the 
loyal States and those States and parts of States heretofore 
declared by j)roclamation of the President to be in insur- 
rection, and which may resume and maintain a loyal ailhe- 
sion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be occui)ied 
and controlled by the forces of the United States enj^a.ijed 
in the dis[)ersion of the insurgents. Tlie rales and regula- 
tions governing internal commerce heretofore prescribed by 
the Secretary of the Treasury are therefore hereby so far mo- 
dified as to authorize the respective surveyors of the customs 
at the i)orts of Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, 
Louisville, New Albany, EvansviiU', Paducah, Cairo, and 
Saint Louis, to issue permits for the transportation of mer- 
chandise, and for the exchange of the same for money or 
products of such States and i)arts of States, upon applica- 
tion being made to them respectively, if satisfied of the 
loyalty and good faith of the applicant, and upon the tiling 
of an aflidavit properly execut(Hl,that the permit so applied 
for shall not, if granted, be used so as to give in any way 
any aid, comfort, information, or encouragement to persons 
in insnrrection against the Government of the United 
States, or under insurrectionary control and direction. 

You will hereafter cease collecting any percentage or fees 
for permitting the transit and exchange of merchandise 
between the citizens of loyal States and loyal citizens of 
insurrectioiujry sections of the country occupied or con- 
trolled by the forces of the United States, other than the 
usual charge of twenty cents for such permit so granted; 
and you will make no charge for i)ermits for merchandise 
forwarded from any place in a loyal State to another in tiie 
same or other like State, nor exercise any supervision over 
the trade between such States except such as may be neces- 
sary to prevent supplies of any description being furnished 
to insurgents. 

It is furthermore directed that no permits be granted for 
any articles forbidden by the military authorities to be 
transported into the territory occu])ied by the forces of the 
United States. 

Parties, therefore, desiriiig licenses and permits for com- 
mercial trade, under the rules and regulations as herein 
moditied, will hereafter make their api)lication direct to the 
l)roper surveyor, and not to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secrclary of the Treasury. 



KEGULATIONS 

CONCERNIXG 

INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 



Treasury Department, August 2S, 1862. 
In piirsnance of law, and by virtue of tbe antliority conferred npon 
the Set'ietary of the Treasury by the act of Congress approved July 13, 
18G1, entitled "An act to further jn-ovide for the collection of duties on 
im])orts, and for other purposes," and an act sui)i)lenientary thereto, 
approved May liO, 1802, and for the i)ur|)ose of preventing" the convey- 
ance of arms, munitions of war, and other su})[)lies to persons in insur- 
recti(Mi against the United States, the following regulations concerning 
commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States and sections are 
prescribed. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



I. ^o goods, wares, or njerchandise, whatever may be the ostensible 
destination thereof, shall be transported to any place now under the 
control of the insurgents ; nor to any place on the south side of the 
Potomac Eiver; nor to any place on the north side of the Potomac, 
an.d south of the Washington and Annapolis Railroad; nor to any place 
on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake ; nor to any place on the south 
side of the Ohio liiver, below Wheeling, except Louisville; nor to any 
l)lace on the west side of the Mississi[)[)i liiv^er, below the mouth of the 
Des .Aloines, except Saint Louis, without a permit of a duly authorized 
officer of the Treasury Department. And the special agents of this De- 
partnient may temporarily extend these restrictions to such other places 
in their respective districts, and make such local rules to be observed 
therein, as may from time to time become necessary, promptly reporting 
their action to the Secretary of the Treasury for his sanction or disap- 
proval. 

II. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section here- 
tofore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except for 
military purposes and under military orders, or under the special license 
of the Secretary of the Treasury. And no i)ayment of gold or silver 
shall be made for cotton or other merchandise within any such State or 
section. And all cotton or other merchandise purchased or paid for 
therein, directly or indirectly, in gold or silver, shall be forfeited to the 
United States. "^ 

III. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any ship- 
ment to any port, place, or section affected by the existing blockade, 
except for military puri)oses, and ui)on the certificate and request of the 
De])artment of War or the Department of the Navy. 

IV. All ai)plications for permits to transport or trade under these 
regulations shall state the character and value of the merchandise to be 



44 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

transpoi'tod, the c-oiisij^iiee and destination thereof, witli tlie route of 
transportation and the munber and description of the ])acka^a's witli the 
uiarlvs thereon. 

V. Every applicant for such permits vsliall present with liis application 
the ori;.iinal invoices of the j;()ods, wares, and merchandise to l)e trans- 
ported, and shall make and file with the officer *.>rantin,u- the peiinit an 
aliida\it that the quantities, descriptions, and values are correctly stated 
in said invoices, true copies of which shall be annexed to and tiled w ith 
the atlidavit, and that the packajics contain nothing- except as stated 
in the invoices; that the nuMchandise so i)ermitted shall not, nor shall 
any i)art thereof, be dis])osed of by him or by his authority, connivance, or 
assent, in violation of the terms of the permit, and that neither the per- 
mit so granted, nor tlie merchandise to be trans[)orted, shall bo so used 
Of disjtosed of by him or by his authority-, connivance, or assent, as in 
anyway to give aid, comfort, inforniation, or encoura<iement to i)ersoiis 
in insurrection apiinst the United States. And, furthermore, that the 
ai)plicant is loyal to the Government of the United States, aud will in 
all things so deport himself. 

VI. No permit shall be granted to shi}) goods, wares, or merchandise 
io States or parts of States heretofore declared to be in insurrection, or 
to places under insurre(;tionary control, or occupied by the military 
forces of the United States, except to persons residing or doing business 
therein Mhose loyalty and good faith shall be certitied by an ofticer of 
the Government or other jierson <luly authorized to nuike such certifi- 
cate, or by a duly appointed boai'd t)f trade therein, by whose ai)proval 
and permission only the same shall be unladed or disi)Osed of. And no 
permit shall be granted to ship nu'rchandise/>'o>» any such State or part 
of State in violation of any order restricting sliijunents therefrom, made 
for military pur[)oses by the commandant of the department from which 
such shi])ment is to be nuide. 

yil. Collectors or surveyors of customs, before granting clearances or 
permits, may recpiire boiul, with reasonalile surety, in such cases as they 
shall think necessary to i)r()tect the public interests, conditioned that 
there shall be no violation of the terms or spirit of the clearance or 
permit, or of the aveinuMits of the affidavit upon which the same is 
gninted, 

Vill. Noi)ermit shall be granted to ship intoxi(;ating drinks, or other 
thing i)rohibited by the military authorities, into territory occupied by 
the military forces of the United States, excei>t u})()u the written 
recpiest of the commandant of the department in which such territory is 
embraced, or of some person duly authorized by him to nuike such 
request. 

IX. In order to defray the expenses under these regulations, a fee of 
twenty cents will be charged for each peruut granted; and sliipments 
permitted to and from States heretofore declare<l to be in insurrectiou 
shall, in a(hlition thereto, be charged with the following fees, viz: five 
cents on each one hundred dollars over three hundred dollars on all 
shipments to sui'h States or sections; tifty cents on each one thousand 
pounds of cotton, and twenty-five cents on each o\w thousand pounds of 
sugar permitted /■/•o/i^ such State. 

X. No vessel, boat, or vehicle used for transportation upon or south 
of the Potomac Iviver, or north of the Potomac and south of the Wash- 
ington and .Vnnapolis Jiailroad, or to the eastern shore of the Chesa- 
peake, or southwardly on or from the Ohio IJiver below Wheeling, or 
west wardly or southwardly on orfr(un the Mississippi liivei' below the 
mouth of the J>es Moines, shall receive on board any goods, wares, or 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 45 

mercliaudise destined to any place commercial intercourse with which 
now is or hereafter may be restricted as aforesaid, unless the same be 
accompanied with a i)erinit of a duly authorized ofticer of the Treasury 
Department, exce])t as hereinafter i>rovided in regulation number XIV. 

XI. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transi>ortation from 
eastern cities, or elsewliere in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, 
or merchandise into any place section, or State restricted as aforesaid, 
without the permit of the duly authorized ollicer of the {customs, ai)i)li- 
cation for whifh permit may be made to such authorized officer near 
the point of destination as may suit the convenience of the shii)|)er. 

XII. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for trantsportation shall 
put oif any goods, wares, or merchandise at any place other than that 
named in the permit as the place of destination. 

XIII. Before any boat or vessel running- on any of the western waters 
south of Louisville or Saint Louis, or other waters within or adjacentto 
any State or section commercial intercourse with which now is or may 
hereafter be restricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any i)ort where 
there is a collector or surveyor of customs, there shall be exhibited to 
the collector or surveyor, or such other officer as may be authorized to 
act in his stead, a trne manifest of its entire cargo, and a clearance 
obtained to jiroceed on its voyage; and when freights are received on 
boa.rd at a place where there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter 
provided in regulation XIV, then the same exhibit shall be made and 
clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such an 
officer; and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of 
its cargo exhibited to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed 
on the trij) where there is such an officer; bnt no new clearance shall be 
necessary unless additional freights shall have been taken on board alter 
the last clearance. Immediately on arriving at the port of final des- 
tination, and before discharging any part of its cargo, the manifest shall 
be exhibited to the surveyor of such port, or other officer authorized to 
act in his stead, whose approval for landing the cargo shall be indorsed 
on the manilest before any part thereof sluUl be discharged ; and the 
clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats shall be 
exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or military post 
whenever such otlicer may require it. 

XIV. To facilitate trade and guard against improper transpoi-tation, 
" aids to the revenue" will be appointed from time to time on car?;, ves- 
sels, and boats, when desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, 
which aids will have free carriage on the respective cars, vessels, and 
boats on which they are placed, and will allow proper way freights to 
be taken on board without i)ermit, keeping a statement thereof, and 
reporting the same to the collector or surveyor of the first i)ort to be 
passed on the trip, where there is such an officer, from whom a permit 
therefor must be obtained or the goods returned under his directicni. 
No permit will be granted for transportation into any insurrectionary 
State or district, except on cars, vessels, and boats carrying such aids. 

XV. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation 
violating aiiy of the above regulations, and all goods, wares, and mer- 
chandise shipped or trans])orted in violation thereof, will be forfeited to 
the United States. If any false statement be made or decei)tion ]^rac- 
ticed in obtaining* a i)ernjit, such permit, and all others connected 
therewith or affected thereby, will be absolutely void, and all mei-chan- 
dise shipped thereunder shall be forfeited to the United States. Jn all 
cases of forfeiture as aforesaid immediate seizure will be made and pro- 
ceedings instituted promptly for condemnation. The attention of all 



46 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

officers of tlie Goveriimoiit, common carriers, shippers, consif>-neos, own- 
ers, masters, a<;eiits, drivers, and other ])ersoiis connected with the 
trans))()rtation of merchamlise, or tradin<i- therein, is particularly 
directed to the acts of July 13, 18G1, and May 20, 1802, above re- 
ferred to. 

XYI. All Army supplies transported under military orders are ex- 
cepted from the above regulations. But this exce[)ti()n does not 
extend to sutlers' goods or others designed for sale at military posts 
or canips. 

XVII. When any officer of the customs shall find in his district any 
goods, wares, or merchandise which in hiso])inion are in danger of being^ 
trans[)orted to insurgents, he may, if he thinks it expedient, re<inire the 
owner or holder tlieieof to give reasonable security that they shall not 
be transi)orted to any place under insurrectionary control, and shall not 
in any way l)e used to give aid or encouragement to the insurgents. If 
the required security be not given, such olficer shall [troinptly state the 
facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such 
goods are situated, or, if beyond the jurisdiction of a United States nuir- 
shal, then to the commandant of the nearest military i)ost, whose duty 
it shall be to take possession thereof and hold them for safe keeping, 
reporting the facts promptly to the Secretary of the Treasury, and 
awaiting instructions. 

XVIII. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by the 
proclamation of the President, licenses will be granted by United States 
consuls, on application by the proper parties, to vessels clearing from 
foreign ports to the ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the 
vessels so licensed will convey no person, property, or information con- 
traband of war, either to or from said ports, which license shall be shown 
to the collector of the port to which the vessel is bound, and, if recpiired, 
to any officer in charge of the blockade. And on leaving any port so 
opened the vessel nuist have a clearance from the collector, according to 
law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. Any viola- 
tion of the conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the 
vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from enter- 
ing the United States for any jmrpose during the war. 

XIX. United States vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of 
the ports so opened will ap])ly to the custom-house officers of the proper 
ports, jn the usual manner, tor licenses or clearances under the regula- 
tions heretofore established 



War Department, 
Washington City, Au(/ust 2S, 1SG2. 
The attention of all officers and others connected with the Army of 
the United States is called to the regulations of the Secretary of the 
Treasury concerning commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States 
or sections, dated August 28, 18()2. 

I. Commandants of departments, districts, and i)osts will render all 
such military aid as may become necessary in carrying out the provis- 
ions of said regulations and enforcing observance thereof to the extent 
directed by the Secietary of the Treasury, so far as can possil)ly be done 
without danger to the oi)erations or safety of their respective commauds. 

II. There will be no interference with trade or shii)uients of cotton or 
other merchandise conducted in pursuance of said regulations within 
any territory occupied and controlled by the forces of the United States, 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 47 

unless absolutely necessary to tbe successful execution of military plans 
or movements therein. But in cases of violations of the conditions of 
any clearan(?e or ])ermit granted under said regulations, and in cases of 
unlawful traffic, the guilty party or parties will be arrested and the facts 
promi)tly rei)orted to the commandant of the department for orders. 

111. Xo officer of the Arm}- or other person connected therewith will 
seize cotton or other property of individuals unless exposed to destruc- 
tion by the enemy, or needed for military purposes, or for contiscatiou 
under the act of Congress ; and in all such cases of seizure the same shall 
be promptly reported to the commandant of the department whereiu 
they are nuide, for his orders therein. 

EDWIX M, STANTOX, 

Secretary of War. 



Navy Department, August 28, 1862. 
The attention of naval officers is called to the regulations of the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury conceining commercial intercourse with iusurrec- 
tioui.ry States or sections, dated August 28, 1802. 

I. Commandei s of naval vessels will render such aid as may be neces- 
saiy in carrying out the ])rovisions of said regulations and enforcing 
observance thereof to the extent directed by the Secretary of the Treas- 
ury, so far as can possibly be done without danger to the operations or 
safety of their respective commands. 

II. Theie will l)e no interference with trade in or shipments of cotton 
or other merchandise conducted in pursuance of said regulations withiu 
any of the waters controlled by the naval forces of the United States, 
unless absolutely necessary to the successful execution of military or 
naval plans or movements. But iu cases of the violation of the condi- 
tions of any clearance or permit granted uuder said regulations, and in 
cases of unlawful traffic, the guilty party or parties will be arrested and 
the facts i)romptly reported. 

III. No officer of the Navy will seize cotton or other property of indi- 
viduals within the territory opened for traffic, and subject to the regu- 
lations of the Secretary of the Treasury, unless the same is exposed to 
destruction by the enemy, or needed for naval purposes, or for confis- 
cation under the act of Congress; and in all such cases the fact, with, 
all the attendant circumstances, shall be promptly reported to the 
Department. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Hecretary. 



Treasury Department, 
Washington, March 31, 1863. 
The President of the L^nited States, in pursuance of the act of Con- 
gress, ap|)roved July 13, 1801, entitled ''An act further to provide for 
the collection of duties on imjtorts, and for other purposes." having de- 
clared that the inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South Carolina^ 
North Caiolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis- 
sissijipi. Florida, and Viiginia, excei)t the forty-eight counties of Viiginia 
designated as West Virginia, and except the ports of New Orleans, Key 
West, Port Ivoyal, and Beaufort, in Noith Caiolina, are in insuirection 
against the United States, and that all commercial intercourse betweeu 
the same and the inhabitants thereof, except as aforesaid, and the citi- 



48 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

zens of otiior States and other parts of the United States, is nnhiwfnl, 
except as licensed and permitted by the President, and conducted under 
the reguhitious of tlie Secretary of the Treasury, as j)rovided by said 
act : 

Now, therefore, for the ])urpose of securing the due execution of the 
said act, and the supplementary act approved May UO, 1862, and for the 
j)urpose of safely and proi)erly (!onducting such commercial inten^ourse 
as may be licensed and permitted by tlie President pursuant to the pro- 
visionsof said acts, ami also lor tlie purp!)se of preventing' theconveyance 
of arms and other munitions of war and supplies to [)ersons in insurrec- 
tion against the United States, the following regulations are hereby i)re- 
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, iu pursuance of tlu^ authority 
conferred upon him by the s.iid acts. 

s. r. CHASE, 

Secretary of the Treasuri/. 



REGULATIONS. 

Section I. iSTo goods, wares, or merchandise, Avhatever may be the 
ostensible destination thereof, shall be transported to any i)lace now 
under the control of insurgents; nor to any place on the south side of 
the Potomac liiver; nor to any i)lace on the north si<le of the Potomac 
and south of the Washington and Aniuipolis Railroad ; nor to any place 
on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake; nor to any ))Iace on the south 
side of the Ohio lliver below Wheeling, except Louisville; nor to any 
place on the west side of the Mississippi Kiver below the mouth of the 
Des Moines, exce})t Saint Louis, witiiout a permit of a duly authorized 
oflficer of the Treasury Department. 

Sec. II. All tians[)ortation of coin or bullion to any State or section 
heretofore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except 
for military puri)oses antl under military orders, or under the special 
license of the President. And no payment of gold or silver shall be 
made for cotton or other merchandise within any such State or section. 
And all cotton or other merchandise [)urchased in any such State or 
section, to be paid for therein, directly or indirectly, in gold or silver, or 
foreign bills of exchange, shall be forfeited to the United States. 

Sec. III. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any 
shipment to any port or i)lace utiecited by the existing blockade, except 
for military purposes, and ujion the certificate and request of the De- 
parment of War or the J^epartmeiit of the Navy. 

Sec. IV. All aiiplieations for i)eriuits to transport goods or. proi)erty 
under these regulations shall state the character and value of the mer- 
chandise to be transported, the place from and to which such transpor- 
tation is to be made, the names of the owner and shipper and consignee 
thereof, and the number ami description of ihe packages, with the marks 
thereon. 

Sec. v. Every ai)plicant for a permit to transport goods, wares, or 
merchandise for i)uri)oses of trade into or within any place or section 
named in the tirst section of these regulations, shall present with his 
application the original invoices of the goods, wares, and merchandise 
to be transi)orted, and shall make and tile with the officer gianting the 
liermit an affidavit that the names of the owners, the (piantities, descrip- 
tions, and values of the nuTchandise are correctly stated in said in- 
voices, true C()i)ies of wlii(;li shall be annexed to and tiled with the affi- 
davit; and that the marks on the packages arecorrectly stated in the 



INTEKNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 49 

application, and that the packages contain nothing except as stated in 
the invoices; that the merchandise so permitted shall not, nor shall any 
part thereof, be disposed of by him, or by his authority, connivance, or 
assent, in violation of the terms of the permit, and that neither the per- 
rait so granted nor the merchandise to be transported shall be so used 
or disposed of by him or by his authority, connivance, or assent, as in 
any way to give aid, comfort, information, or encouragement to persons 
in "insurrection aguiust the United ^:5tates. And furthermore, that the 
applicant is loyal to the Government of the United States, and will in 
ail things so deport himself. 

Sec. Vr/ Whenever commercial intercourse with any part or section 
of a State heretofore declared in insurrection is permitted by the Secre- 
tary of tlie Treasury, under the license of the President, in pursiuxnce of 
the said act approved July lo, 18(5 1, notice thereof and of the conditions 
under which tlie same may be conducted shall be published in such 
pnpers as the Secretary may think expedient, in order to the general in- 
^ 'laation of parties interested. 

Sec. VI [. After commercial intercourse with any part or section of an 
insurrectionary State has been permitted as aforesaid, permits to trans- 
port to or from any ]>lace tlieiein, or to purchase or sell in any place 
therein, for use in any other place, shall be granted only by such per- 
sons as shall be specially authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury 
after the date hereof. And no permit shall be granted by any such 
person to transport to or from, or to purchase or sell in any plac& 
or section whatever not within the military lines of the United States- 
Army. 

Sec. VIII. Every i)ermit to purchase cotton, tobacco, or other mer- 
chandise within any i)lace or section in a State heretofore declared in. 
insurrection, after commercial intercourse therewith shall have been 
])eimitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the license of the- 
President as aforesaid, an(l every permit to transi)ort the same thereto,, 
therein, or therefrom, shall clearly define the character and qnantity o^ 
the merchamlise so permitted to be sold, purchased, or transported, and 
t^" place or section within which the same may be purchased or sold, 
I to and from which the same may be transported. 

Sec. IX. A fee of twenty cents will be charged for each permit 
granted for ])urposesof trade, under these regulations ; and, in addition 
thereto the following fees shall be collected, viz : for a permit to pur- 
chase or sell cotton or tobac(;o within any place or section in a State- 
heretofore declared in insurrection, commercial intercourse with which: 
has been permitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, under tlie license 
of the President as aforesaid, and to transport the same therefrom to 
any ])lace in the loyal States, four cents per pound of cotton, and two 
dollars per hogshead of tobacco; and for a permit to tiansport any 
other goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, designed for sale,, 
except supplies for officers and soldiers, shipped by sutlers to or from 
any such plact? or section in an insurrectionary State, five ])er centum' 
upon the sworn invoice value thereof at the place of sliii)ment. 

Sec. X. Every officer authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to- 
grant permits under these regulations shall keep in his office a lecord of 
all his transactions under such authority, and especially he shall keep at 
record of every i)erinit granted by him, showing the names of the owner,, 
shipper, and consignee, the places from and to which each transporta- 
tion is i)ermitte(l, the character and invoice value of the merchandise 
permitted to be transported, and the fees received therefor, an abstract 
statement of which, together with the names and compensation of all 
4 A c 



50 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

aids to the revenue reportiiiii; to biin, sliall be jiiveii to the proper 
supervising- special a<i;ent of the Treasury Department on the first of 
every nu)nth. 

Sec. XL Xo permit shall be granted to ])ur<'hase or sell cotton, 
tobacco, or other goods, wares, or merchandise, designed for trade 
within any place or section aforesaid, nor to transport the same therein, 
thereto, or therefrom, except to persons who shall, before receiving such 
])ermit, make aflidavit that they are in all respects loyal and true to the 
Government of the United States, and that they have never voluntarily 
given aid to the rebels in arms, nor in any other manner eiu-ouraged 
the rebellion; and that they will at all times, by their conduct and 
conversation, and by every other means they can properly use, do all 
that should be expected of them as loyal citizens to suppress the rebel- 
lion and restore obedience to tUe Constitution and laws of the United 
States. 

Sec. XII. Collectors or surveyors of customs, before granting clear- 
ances, ujay require bond, with reasonable surety, in such cases as they 
shall think necessary, to i)rotect the public interests, conditioned that 
there shall be no violation of the terms or spirit of the clearance, or 
of the averments of the aftidavit u])Ou which the same is granted. 

Sec. XIII. Xo |)ermit shall be granted to shij) intoxicating drinks, or 
other thing prohibited by the military authorities, into territory occu- 
pied by the military forces of the United States, except upon the 
written request of the comnumder of the departnuMit in which such ter- 
ritory is embraced, or of some person duly authorizetl, by him to make 
such request. 

Sec. XIV. Xo vessel, boat, or vehicle used for trans[)ortation upon or 
south of the Potomac IJiver, or north of the Potomac and south of the 
"Washington and Annapolis Railroad, or to the eastern shore of the 
■Chesapeake, or southwardly on or from the Ohio Piver below Wheeling, 
westwardly or southwardly on or from the Mississippi Piver below the 
mouth of the Des Moines, ov on or from the Mississii)pi Piver iu any 
direction below the mouth of the Ohio, shall receive on board any goods, 
wares, or merchandise destined to any place, commercial intercourse 
Avith which now is, or hereafter umy be, restricted as aforesaul, unless 
the same be accompanied with a permit of a duly authorized officer of 
the Treasury Department, except as hereinafter provided in regulation 
number XVIII. 

Sec. XV. Xo vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation 
from any place in the loyal States, shall carrry goods, wares, or mer- 
chandise into any place, section, or States, restricted as afon^said, with- 
out the permit of a duly authorized oflicer of the Treasury DejiartnuMit, 
application for which i)ermit may be made to such authorized officer 
near the point of destination as n)ay suit the convenience of the 
shipi>er. 
■-- Sec. XVI. Xo vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation 
•shall put olf any goods, wares, or merchandise at any place other than 
that named iu the permit as the place of destination. 

Sec. XVII. Pefore any boat or vessel rtuming on any of the western 
•waters south of Louisville or ^Saint Louis, or otiu^r waters within or 
adjacent to any State or section' connnercial intercourse with which now 
is or may hereafter be restricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any port 
where there is a collector or surveyor of customs, there shall be exhib- 
ited to the collector or surveyor, or such other officer as may be author- 
ized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo and a clear- 
ance obtained to proceed on its voyage ; and when freights are received 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 51 

on board at a ])lace where there is no collector or surveyor, as herein- 
after provided in section XVIII, then the same exhibit shall be made 
and clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such 
an officer, and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of 
its cargo exliibited to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed 
on the trip where there is such an olficer; but no new clearance shall 
be necessary unless additional freights shall have been taken on board 
after the last clearance. Immediately on arriving at the port of final 
destination, and before discharging any part of its cargo, the manifest 
shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such port, or other officer author- 
ized to act in his stead, wliose approval for landing the cargo shall be 
indorsed on the manifest before any part thereof shall be discharged ; 
and the clearance and shipiiing iiermits of all such vessels and boats 
shall be exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or mil- 
itary post whenever such officer may require it. 

Sec. XVIII. To facilitate trade and guard against iniproper transporta- 
tion, " aids to the revenue" will be appointed from time to time on cars, 
vessels, and boats, when desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, 
which aids will have free carriage on the respective cars, vessels, and 
boats on which they are placed, and will allow i)roper way freights to 
be taken on board without permit, keeping a statement thereof, and 
reporting the same to the first officer to be passed on the trip who is 
authorized to grant the permit desired, from whom a [termit therefor 
must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to tlie shipi)er under 
his direction. Xo permit will be granted for transportation into or within 
any insurrectionary State or district, except on cars, vessels, and boats 
carrying such aids. 

Sec. XIX. Supervising special agents of the Treasury Department 
will be api)ointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to sui)ervisc within 
designated limits the execution of these regulations, and to make such 
local rules and restrictions, not inconsistent with them, as may be 
proper for that purpose, and to change the same from time to time, and 
temporarily suspend or qualify the authority to grant permits, as the 
jniblic interests may require, subject to the approval of the Secretary 
of the Treasury ; and all permits and clearances authorized under these 
regulations will be granted only in compliance with such local rules and 
restrictions as may be approved as aforesaid. 

Sec. XX. Boards of trade will be appointed by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, at such places as he may think necessary, to aid in the due 
enforcement of these regulations, and in properly conducting such com- 
mercial intercourse between the inhabitants of States declared in insur- 
rection and the citizens of other vStates and other parts of the United 
States, as may be permitted under the license of the President. 

Sec. XXI. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transporta- 
tion violating any of the above regulations, or any of the local rules 
and restrictions made by a supervising special agent, with the api>roval 
of the Secretary of the Treasury, and all cotton, tobacco, or other mer- 
chandise shipped or transported or purchased or sold in violation 
thereof, will be forfeited to the United States. If any false statement 
be made or deception practiced in obtaining a permit, such permit and 
all others connected therewith or affected thereby will be absolutely 
void, and all merchandise shipped under them shall be forfeited to the 
United States. In all cases of forfeiture, as aforesaid, immediate seiz- 
ure will be made and proceedings instituted promptly for condemnation. 
The attention of all officers of the Government, common carriers, ship- 
pers, consignees, owners, masters, agents, drivers, and other persons 



52 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

coniu'cted with the transportation of niorchandise, or trading therein, 
is particidarly directed to the acts of Jnly 1.'5, LSGl, and May 20, 18(12, 
above referred to, and March 12, 1803, and these regulations for execut- 
ing the same. 

vSec. XXII. Transportation of sui)plies belonging to or contracted for 
by the United States, designed for the military or naval forces thereof 
and moving under military or naval orders, is exce[)ted from the effect 
oi these regulations; but this exce[)tion does not extend to sutlers' 
goods or otliers designed for sale at military posts or camps. 

Sec. XXI II. When any collector, surveyor, S[)ecial agent, or board 
of trade, charged with the execution of tliese regulations and the laws 
authorizing them, shall Hnd within his or their proper limits any goods, 
wares, or merchandise, Avhich, in his or their opinion, aie in danger of 
being transported to insurgeuts,,he or they may re(]uire the owner or 
holder thereof to gi\^e reasonable security that they shall not be trans- 
])orted to any place under insurrectiouaiy control, and shall not in any 
"Way be used to give aid or encouragement to the insurgents. 

If the required security be not given, such officer or officers sliall 
jironiptly state the facts to the United States marshal for the district 
within which such goods are situated, or, if beyond the jurisdiction of 
a United States marshal, then to the commander of the nearest military 
post, Avhose duty it shall be to take i)ossessiou thereof, and hold them 
for safe-keeping, reporting the facts prom[)tly to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, and awaiting instructions. 

Sec. XXIV. Where potts heretofore blockaded have been opened by 
the proclamation of the President, licenses will be gnuited by United 
States consuls, on application by the proper i)arties, to vessels (blearing 
from foreign ])orts to the ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence 
that the vessel so licensed will convey no i)erson, property, or informa- 
tion contraband of war. either to or from said })()rts, which license shall 
be shown to the collector of the port. to which the vessel is bound, and, 
if rcijuired, to any officer in charge of the blockade. And on leaving 
any ])ort so opened, the vessel must have a clearance from the collector, 
according to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. 
Any violation of the conditions will involve the forfeiture ami condem- 
nation of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all i)arties con- 
ceriu'd from entering the United States for any pur[)ose during the war. 

Sec. XXY. United States vessels clearing from domestic ports to 
any of the ports so opened will apply to the custom-house officers of 
the proper ])orts, in the usual manner, for licenses or clearances under 
the regulations heretofore established. 

Sec;. XXVI. These regulations shall supersede those of August 28, 
1802, and all others contlicting herewith, affecting commercial inter- 
course M'ith insurrectionary States, and uo permits will be hereafter 
granted by any officer of thc^ Treasury Department, except in pursuance 
lu'reof, and of the local rules and restrictions aforesaid, and by virtue 
of authority hereafter given by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



I 



[General Orders No. 88.] 

War Department, 
Washington, March 31, 1803. 
For the ])urpt)se of more effectually jireventing all comn)ercial inter- 
course with insurrectionary States, except such as sliall be authorized iu 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 53 

pursuance of law, and of securing consistent, uniform, and efficient 
action in conducting such intercourse as shall be so authorized, and for 
the purpose of carrying out the provisions of an act of Congress entitled 
"An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the 
prevention of frauds in insurrectionary States," approved March 12, 1863, 
it is hereby ordered : 

I. That no officer of the Army of the United States, nor other person 
connected therewith, shall authorize or have any interest in the trans- 
portation of any goods, wares, or merchandise (except supplies belong- 
ing to or contracted for by the United States, designed for the military 
or naval forces thereof, and moving und< r military or naval orders, and 
except, also, sutlers' sui)])lies and other things necessary for the use and 
comtort of the troops of the United States and moving under i)ermits of 
the authorized officers of the Tieasuiy Department) into any State de- 
clared by the President to be in iusi'irrection ; nor authorize nor have 
any interest in the purchase or sale therein of any goods or chattels, 
wares or merchandise, cotton, tobacco, or other product of the soil 
thereof; nor the transportation ot the same, except as aibresaid, there- 
from or therein: nor shall any such officer or person authorize, prohibit, 
or in any manner interfere with any such purchase or sale or transpor- 
tation, which shall be conducted under the regulations of the Secretary of 
the Treasuiy, unless under some im iterative military necessity, in the 
place or section where the same shall be conducted, or unless requested 
by an agent or some other auihoiized officer of the Treasury Depart- 
ment, in which case all commanders of military departments, districts, 
and posts, will render such aid in carrying out the jirovisionsof the said 
act, and in enforcing due observance ol the said regulations of the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, as can be given without manifest injury to the 
X^ublic service. 

II. It is further ordered that every officer or private, or i)ersor em- 
ployed in or with the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, 
who may receive or have under his control any property which shall 
have been abandoned by the owner or owners, or cai)tured in any dis- 
trict declared to be in insuirection against the United States, including 
all property seized under military orders, excei)ting only such as shall 
be required for military use of the United States lorces, shall promptly 
turn over all such projjerty to the agent appointed by the Secretary 
of the Treasury to receive the same, who shall give duplicate receipts 
therefor. 

And every such officer or private, or person employed in or with the 
regular or volunteer forces of the United States, shall also i)romptly 
turn over to such agent, in like manner, all receipts, bills of lading, and 
other papers, documents, and vouchers showing title to such i)roperty, 
or the right to the possession, control, or direction thereof; and he shall 
make such order, indorsement, or Avriting as he has i)ower to make, to 
enable such agent to take possession of such property or the proceeds 
thereof. Arms, munitions of war, forage, horses, mules, wagons, beef- 
cattle, and supplies which are necessary in military operations, shall be 
turned over to the proper officers of the ordnance, or of the quarter- 
master, or of the commissary departments, respectively, for the use of 
the Army. All other property abandoned or captured or seized, as 
aforesaid, shall be delivered to the agent appointed by the Secretary of 
the Treasury. 

The officer receiving or turning over such property shall give the 
usual and necessary invoices, receipts, or vouchers therefor, and shall 
make regular returns therefor, as prescribed by the Army regulations. 



54 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

The rect'ii)t.sof tlio ageutsof the Treasury Department sliall be vouchers 
for all i)roi)ert.v delivered to thein, and whenever called upon by the 
agent of tlie Treasury Department authorized to receive such abandoned 
or captured or seized property, as afores.iid, or the i)roceeds thereof, all 
persons employed in the military service will give him full information 
in rejiard thereto; an<l, if reijuested by him so to do, they shall give 
him duplicates or copies of the reports and returns thereof, and of the 
receii)ts, invoices, and vouchers therefor. 

And every officer of the Army of the United States, hereafter receiv- 
ing- abandoned or captured or seized property, or the proceeds thereof, 
or under whose order it maybe applied to the use of the military forces, 
asaforesaid, shall, upon recpiestof a duly authorized ageutof theTreasury 
DepartnuMit, render a written report, with invoices thereof, to said agent, 
in which he will specify the arms, sui)i)lies, or other munitions of war, re- 
tained for the use of the military forces, as aforesaid, and also, sepa- 
rately, the i)roperty turned over to said agent, or which may have beeu 
sold or otiierwise dis[)osed of. 

And in case a sale of any such property shall be nuide under his 
authority, or under the authority of any one subject to his order, he will 
so state, and Avill describe the property so sold, and will state when and 
where and by and to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, and 
what disj)osition was uuide of the proceeds. 

And all officers of the Army of the United States will at all times 
render to the agents appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury all such 
aid as may be necessary to enable them to take ])ossession of and trans- 
l)ort all such i)roperty, so far as can be done without manifest injury to 
the public service. 

Ill, All commanders of military departments, districts, and posts will, 
upon receii)t of this order, revoke all existing orders Avithin their re- 
spective commands coutlicting or inconsistent herewith, or which [)ermit 
or i)roiiibit or in any manmn- interfere with any trade or traiis^)ortation 
Ci)ndu('te<l under the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and 
their attention is i)articularly directed to said regulations, prescribed 
March .'U, 18G.'>, and they will resi)ectively make such orders as will 
insure' strict observance of this order throughout their respective com- 
mands. 

All expenses of transporting property herein referred to will be re- 
ported by the officers of the quartermaster's department, who furnish 
su(;h transi)ortation, to the agents of the Treasury Department, and also, 
through the ordinary channels, to the Quartermaster General at Wash- 
ington, in order that-the said expenses may be reimbursed from the pro- 
ceeds of sales of such transi)orted projjcrtv. 

]<:L)WIN M. STANTON, 

ISecretary of ^Yar. 



Navy Department, 

Wash ill f/ton, March 31, 18G3. 
For the ])urpose of more effectually preventing all commercial inter- 
course with insurrectionary States, except su{;h as shall be authorized 
in ])ursuance of law, and of securing consistent, uniform, and efficient 
action in conducting such intercourse as shall be so authorized, and for 
the purjiose of carrying out the jn'ovisions of an act of Congress, entitled 
"An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property, and for the 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 55 

preventioQ of frantls in insiirrectionar}^ States," approved March 12, 1863, 
it is hereby ordered : 

I. Tliat no ofheer of the ]S"avy of the United States, nor otlier person 
connected therewith, shall authorize, or liave any interest in, the trans- 
portation of any goods, wares, or merchandise (except supplies belonging 
to, or contracted for by, the United States, desigued for the military or 
naval forces thereof, and moving under military or naval orders, and 
exce])t also sutlers' supplies and other things necessary for the use and 
comfort of the naval forces of tlie United States, and moving under per- 
mits of the authorized ofticers of the Treasury Department) into any 
State declared by the President to be in insurrection ; nor authorize nor 
have any interest in the purchase or sale therein of any goods or chat- 
tels, wares or merchandise, cotton, tobacco, or other products of the soil 
thereof; nor the transportation of the same, except as aforesaid, there- 
from or therein; nor shall any such officer or person authorize, prohibit, 
or in any manner interfere with any such i)nrchase or sale or transpor- 
tation which shall be conducted under the regulations of the Secretary 
of the Treasury, unless under some imperative military necessity in the 
place or section where the same shall be conducted, or unless requested 
by an agent or some otiier authorized officer of the Treasury Depart 
ment, in which case all officers of the Navy of the United States and 
other persons connected therewith will render such aid in carrying out 
the provisions of the said act and of the law, ami in enforcing due ob- 
servance of the said regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, as can 
be given without manifest injury to the public service. 

II. It is further ordered that every officer, sailor, or marine in the 
naval service of the Unired States vi^ho shall receive or have under his 
control any property which shall have been abandoned by the owner or 
owners, or captured in any district declared to be in insurrection against 
the United States, including all property seized in any such district, 
mider naval orders, excepting only such as shall be required for the use 
of the naval forces of the United States, and as is excluded by the act 
of March 12, 18(33, shall promptly turn over all such property to the 
agent appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive the same, 
"who shall give receipts therefor, if desired. 

And every such officer, sailor, or marine shall also turn over to such 
agent in like manner all receipts, bills of lading, and other pajiers, docu- 
ments, and vouchers, showing title to such property, or the riglitto the 
possession, control, or direction thereof; and he shall make such order, 
indorsement, or writing as he has power to make to enable such agent 
to take possession of such property, or the proceeds thereof. Arms, 
munitions of war, forage, horses, mules, wagons, beef-cattle, and sup- 
plies which are necessary in naval operations, shall be turned over to 
the proper officers for the use of the Navy. All other i^roperty aban- 
doned, captured, or seized, as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the said 
agentfof the Treasury Department. 

The officer receiving or turning over such property shall give the 
usual and necessary invoices, receii)ts, or vouchers therefor, and shall 
make regular returns thereof as prescribed by the Navy regulations. 
The recei[)ts of the agents of the Treasury De[)artment shall be vouch- 
ers for all proi)erty delivered to them. And whenever called upon by 
the said agent of the Treasury Department authorized to receixe such 
abandoned, or captured, or seized property, as aforesaid, or the proceeds 
thereof, all i)ersons employed in the naval service of the United States. 
Tvill give him full information in regard thereto, and if recpiested by 



56 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

him so to do, thoy sliall give liini duplicates or copies of tlie reports and 
returns thereof, and of the receii)ts, ii'ivoices, and vouchers therefor. 

And every otticerof the ]Savy of the United States hereaiter receiving 
abandoned, or cai>tured, or seized property in any insurrectionary State 
as aforesaid, or the proceeds thereof, or under whose order it may be 
applied to the use of the naval forces as aforesaid, shall, ui)on request 
of an agent ap])ointed by the Secretary of the Treasury as aforesaid, 
render a Avritten report, with invoices thereof, to said agent, in which 
he will specify the arms, supplies, or other munitions of war retained 
for use of the naval forces as aforesaid, and also, separately, the prop- 
erty turned over to said agent, or which may have been sold or other- 
wise disi)osed of. And in case a sale of any such property shall be 
made under his authority, or under the authority of any one subject to 
his order, he will so state, and will desciibe the property so sold, and 
will state when and where, and by and to whom sold, and the amount 
received therefor, and what disposition was made of the proceeds. 

And all officers of the Navy of the United States will, at all times, 
render to the agents appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury all such 
aid.as may be necessary to enable them to take i)ossessiou of any aban- 
doned, or cai)tured, or seized property aforesaid, and in trans[)orting 
the same, so far as can be done without manifest injury to the public 
service. 

All expenses of transporting ])roperty herein referred to will be re- 
ported by the officers who furnish the transportation to the agent of the 
Treasury Department, and also, through the proper channels, to the 
Navy Department at Washington, in order that the exi)enses may be 
reimbursed from the proceeds of sales of such transported proj^erty. 

III. All naval officers in comnmiid of squadrons, vessels, or stations 
will, upon receipt of this order, revoke all existing orders throughout 
their res])ective commands contlicting or inconsistent herewith, or 
which permit, or ])r()hibit, or in any manner interfere with, any trade or 
transportation condu(;ted under the regulatu)ns of the Secretary of the 
Treasury not understood as applying to any lawful nmritime prize by 
the naval forces of the United States; and their attention is particu- 
larly directed to said regulations, prescribed March 31, 1803, and they 
will respectively make such orders as will insure stric^t observance of 
this order throughout their respective commands. 

GIDEON WELLES, 
/Secretary of the Navy. 



license of trade by the president. 

Washington, Executive Mansion, 

March 31, 18G3. 

Whereas, by the act of Congress approved July 13, 1801, entitled 
"An act to provide for the collection of duties on imi)orts, andforother 
purposes," all commercial intercourse between the inhabitants of such 
States as should by ]n'oclamation be declared in insurrection against the 
United States and the citizens of the rest of the United States was pro- 
hibited so long as such condition of hostility should continue, except as 
the same shall be licensed and permitted by the President to be con- 
ducted and carried on only in pursuance of rulesand regulations i)rescribed 
by the Secretary of the Treasury ; and whereas it appears that a partial 
restoration of such intercourse between the inhabitants of sundry 
places and sections heretofore declared in iusurrection la ]5ursuance of 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 57 

said act and the citizens of the rest of tbe United States will favorably 
aftect tbe public interests : 

Now, tberefore, I, Abrabani Lincoln, President of tbe United States, 
exercising tbeautbority and discretion confided to nie by tbe said act of 
Congress, do bereby license and permit sncb commercial intercourse be- 
tween tbe citizens of loyal States and tbe inbabitants of sucli insurrec- 
tionary States in tbe cases and under tbe restrictions described and ex- 
pressed in tbe regulations prescribed by tbe Secretary of tbe Treasury, 
bearing even date witb tbese presents, or in otber such regulations as 
he may hereafter, with my approval, jirescribe. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



CIRCULAR TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS. 

Treasury Department, April 15, 1863. 

Sir : I transmit herewith, for your information and government, a 
copy of regulations concerning internal and coastwise commercial 
intercourse, prescribed by me March 31, 1803, under acts of Con- 
gress approved, respectively, July 13, 18G1, May 20, 18G2, and March 
12, 18G3. 

Tbe only, officers of tbe Treasur3" Department at present authorized, 
to grant permits for transportation and commercial intercourse with 
points in se(;tions or districts heretofore declared to be in insurrection, 
west of the Alleghany Mountains, are the surveyors of customs at 
Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cinciniuiti, Madison, Louisville, New Albany, 
Evansville, Paducab, Cairo, Quincy, Saint Louis, and Memphis ; and 
you will so inform parties applying for them. Should others be so 
authorized, you will be duly advised. 

Permits for shipments of goods into districts or places with which 
commercial intercourse is restricted, but which have not been declared 
to be in insurrection, may be granted by collectors or surveyors located 
nearest the point desired to be reached, in conformity with the provis- 
ions of these regulations. 

Collectors or surveyors at the point of shipment will, when applied to 
by parties wisbing to make such sbipments, furnish, if satisfied of their 
loyalty and of tbe good faith of tbe proposed transaction, certificates to 
that effect, wbich certificates will be received as sufficient evidence on 
those points by the collector or surveyor nearest the i)ointof'destination, 
to vvboni application for permits will be made by tbe sbipper ; unless 
such officer shall be satisfied of disloyal or improper intent on grounds 
not publicly known. 

All questions of detention or seizure of goods en route to points above 
indicated will be decided by the collector or surveyor at the last port 
to be passed. Any information toucbing the character of any goods or 
transaction in tbe possession of any officer of this Department likely to 
be useful in such decisions, should be promptly forwarded to the officer 
on whom rests the decision, or wbo grants the permit. 

Permits or certificates and requests from Boards of Trade, where such 
organizations exist, will be received and acted upon as heretofore. 

No clearance will be granted under tbe 3d section of these regulations 
without special authority so to do, direct from this Dexiartment, and then 
only in conformity with the provisions of section 9-. 

You will procure and keep regular books of accounts, which shall 
show the daily receipts of all fees received under these regulations, and 
all payments out of that fund -, stating, specifically and in detail, by 



58 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 

what autliority, to whom, aud for wliat purpose siieli payments were 
made. 

You will also prepare and transmit to this Department, as near as 
possible on the first day of each montli. a tabular abstract statement, 
showing coiH'isel> bnt fully all the financial operations of your ofiice 
for the previous month under these regulations. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



CIRCULAR OF JULY 3, 1863. 

[This letter, addressed' to Supervisiiis Special A>!;ent Mellen, and sent to the other 
supervisinjr special agents in July hist, is rcpnblished, with some uiodiHcations adapt- 
ing it to the revised regnlatious, for the convenient information of all parties con- 
cerned.] 

Treasury Department, July 3, 1SG3. 

Sir : I have received your letter of the 5th of June, from Memphis, 
and also those of previous dates from Cincinnati, relative to the collec- 
tion of abandoned and captured property within the States heretofore 
declared to be in insurrection. 

In reply, I think it important to direct your atteution, in the first place, 
to the general distinctions under which all property subject to the dispo- 
sition of national officers, within the district under your supervision, 
may be arranged. 

There may be said lo be four classes of such property, viz, abandoned, 
captured, commercial, and confiscable. 

First. Abandoned property is of two descriptions: first, that which 
has been deserted by the owners ; and, second, that which has been 
voluntarily abandoned by them to the civil or military authorities of the 
United States. Such property is to be collected or received by the 
special agents of this Department, and sold under the authority of the 
act of March 12, 186 i, and the proceeds, after deducting the expenses 
of transportation and sale, and other expenses attending the collection 
and disposition thereof, are to be deposited in the Treasury, subject to 
award by the Court of Claims. Before this court claimants to such 
proi)erty, or the proceeds thereof, have the right, under the act, to pre- 
fer their claims at any time after the sale and before the expiration of 
two years from the close of the war. No guarantee can be given to 
owners of abandoned property in respect to the time when, or the persons 
to whom, proceeds will be paid. 

Secoiul. Captured property is understood to be that which has been 
seized or taken from hostile possession by the military or naval forces 
of the United States, and is to be turned over, with certain exceptions 
named, to the special agents of this Department, in accordance with the 
provisions of the act of March 12, 180;>. All property taken possession 
of by military or naval forces, and turned over to special agents, 
must be regarded as prima facie captured property. Such i)r()perty you 
will receive and direct to be sold, and will cause the proceeds to be de- 
posited in the Treasury, subject to the future award of the Court of 
Claims. 

Captured property which is held as lawful prize by the Navy is not to 
be turned over to the Department agents, nor to be in any way con- 
trolled by them. 

Third. Commercial property is that which has been or may be sold 



ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 59 

and pnrchnsed under tbe license of tlie President, tbrongh permits 
granted by tlie officers of the Treasury Department. 

Eourtli. Confiscable property is that which belongs to certain classes, 
of persons, as recited in the confiscation act of Jidy 17, 1802, and is liable 
to seizure and condemnation by judicial proceedings in the manner pre- 
scribed by that act. 

Great care must be exercised in properly classifying all property, that 
the provisions of the law applicable to each class may be comi)lied with ; 
and it must be remembered that with the property included in the 
fourth class, unless found deserted and abandoned, the agents of the 
Treasury Department have no authority to interfere. The execution ot 
the confiscation act is confided, by its express terms, to the President, 
by whom the Attorney General has been charged with the direction of 
all seizures and proceedings under it. 

It must be remembered, also, that all property coming from insurrec- 
tionary districts into. loyal States, or in reversed direction, or being 
transported withiu or to insurrectionary districts, in contravention of 
law or departmental regulations, is forfeited or forfeitable, and that it is 
the duty of the agents of the Department, as well as of other jtrojier 
officers, to enforce the forfeitures thus incurred ; but property thus for- 
feited or Ibrfeitable must not be confounded with confiscated or confis- 
cable property, which is to be proceeded against and dis[)osed of under 
the act of July 17, ISGL', or with prize property captured by the Xavy, 
and subject to disposition under the direction of prize commissioners and 
courts. 

In respect to property embraced in the first class, namely, abandoned 
property, it is to be observed that no agent is authoinzed to make any 
other assurances than that property voluntarily abandoned shall be 
faithfully disposed of under the law, so as to secure, as far as practica- 
ble in the existing condition of the country, the rights of owners. No 
authority is given, or intended to be given, to agents to make any 
jn'omises of special imnuxnities or advantages not specified in the law. 

In respect to both descriptionsof abandoned property, whether found 
deserted or voluntarily abaiuloned, the law authorizes the payment of 
such expenses as must necessarily be incurred in its collection, or re- 
ceii)t and disposition. 

You will, therefore, pay all such expenses, including fees, taxes, 
freights, storage, charges, labor, and other necessary ex[)enses, out of 
the general fund arising therefrom, being careful to avoid all useless or 
indiscreet expenditures, and to charge each particular lot or parcel with 
the specific or i)roportionate amount of expense pertaining to it, and, 
unless unavoidably prevented, to take vouchers therefor, to be filed 
with the account of sales in this Department. 

Where property is liable to be lost or destroyed in consequence of its 
location being unknown to the special agents, and from other causes, 
and parties propose for compensation to collect and deliver it into the 
hands of the agents of this Department, at points to be designated by 
them, you may contract for the collection and delivery thereof, on the 
best possible terms, not exceeding twenty-live per cent, of the proceeds 
of the property ; which percentage must be full compensation for all ex- 
penses of whatever character incurred in collecting, preparing, and de- 
livering such property at the points indicated. Prior to any contract 
being entered into, each party i)roposing must submit, in writing, a 
statement, as near as may be, giving the kind and amount of property 
proposed to be collected, the location whence to be obtained, and all the 
facts and circumstances connected with it, particularly as to its owner- 
ship • and any contract made in pursuance of this authority will be re- 



60 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 

stricted eitlier to the collection and delivery of particular lots at named 
localities, which is preferred, or, when circumstances clearly justify, to 
the general collection and delivery of all abandoued property in limited 
districts, not greater in any case than one parish or county, and not 
more than one district to be assigned to one contractor. 

Before payment to any contractor for services in fultillment of auy 
contracts made in pursuance of this authority, a bond equal to the 
amount stipulated to be paid must be given by him, indemnifying the 
United States against all claimsto the i)roperty delivered on account of 
damages l)y trespass or otherwise, occasioned by the act or connivance, 
of the contractor, and against all claims that may arise on account of 
expenses incurred in the collection, i)reparation, and transportation of 
said ])roperty to the points designated in such contract. 

Should cases arise justifying, in your opinion, the allowance of a 
larger i)ercentage than that herein authorized, you will refer such cases 
to this Department, accompanied by a statement of the facts and cir- 
cumstances connected therew itli, together with such views and opinions 
of your own as you may think proper to submit for my consideration. 

If property of a jjcrishable nature is found abandoned, and its imme- 
diate sale is required by the interests of all coucerned, it may be dis- 
posed of as provided for by regulations. You will aim to mitigate, as 
far as {)ossible, and will in no case do anything avoidable to augment 
the calamities of war. 

In relation to captured property you will observe the same directions, 
as far as they may be applicable, as to its receipt and subsequent dis- 
position, as are prescribed in relation to abandoned property. 

In relation both to captured and abandoued property, you will re- 
member that no release must be granted to persons claiming ownership 
of property which has come to the possession of the agents of the De- 
partment as abandoned, captured, or forfeited; nor must any permits 
be granted to individuals to remove such pro])erty; nor must personal 
favors, in any case, be extended to one individual or party rather than 
to another; nor must any liabilities be assumed or contracts made on 
the part of the United States not clearly warranted by law and the de- 
partmental regulations made in pursuance of law. 

In case furniture, or other movable property of like character is aban- 
doned or captured, you will cause it to be retained and left on the 
jiremises where found whenever it can be done with safety ; otherwise, 
if practicable, and not attended with too great cost, you will have it 
safely stored and properly marked and numbered, and will report the 
facts to this Department and await further directions. 
'^ Your principal embarrassments will doubtless arise from questions 
relating to property of the third class, or commercial i)roperty. 

The general purposes which, under the acts charging me with the. 
regulation of the restricted commercial intercourse permitted by the 
President, I have kept steadily in vie\v, have already been sufficiently 
explained in general regulations and in letters. 

They may be briefly stated thus : 1st. To allow within districts in 
insurrectionary States where the authority of the (jrovernment is so com- 
pletely re-established, in your judgment, sanctioned by that of the com- 
manding general, as to warrant it, and between such districts and loyal 
States, the freest commercial intercourse compatible with prevention of 
supplies to i)ersons within rebel lines. 2d. To allow beyond such dis- 
tricts, but within the lines of our military occupation, such intercourse, 
sanctioned by the commanding general, as nuiy be re(piired to supj)ly 
the inhabitants with necessaries, but to allow^ no other until the com- 
plete re-establishment of the national authority shall warrant it. And, 



ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 61 

3d. To allow no intercourse at all beyond tlie national and within the 
rebel lines of military occupation ; across these lines there can be no 
intercourse except that of a character exclusively military. 

The limits of the districts within which the most general trade may 
be allowed must necessarily be prescribed by you, after fall conference 
with the commanding generals of departments, whenever such confer- 
ence is practicable, and these should be so clearlj^ and distinctly marked 
by known geographical boundaries, or by the enumeration of counties, 
as to leave no uncertainty as k) their course or comprehension. The 
limits of the regions within which necessaries may be supplied cannot 
be so clearly defined, but must be ascertained as well as ])ossible from 
the commanding generals, and the power to permit any supplies within 
them must be exercised with great caution. 

There does not seem to me to be so much danger in intercourse which, 
does not involve the furnishing of supplies. If, for example, any person 
desires to bring cotton, tobacco, sugar, turpentine, or other property, 
already ])urchased or to be purchased for money only, from any place 
within the lines of our military occupation, I can see no objection to his 
being permitted to do so, subject to the fees and obligations specified in 
the general regulations, on his giving a boiul in a sufficient sum, and 
with sufUcient sureties, conditioned that no military, naval, or civil 
officers or persons, prohibited by law, or by orders of the President, or 
of the Secretaries of War or Navy, or of military or naval commanders 
having proper authority, from being interested in such i)roperty, 
whether purchased or to be purchased, shall be so interested therein. 
Intercourse such as this might, it seems to me, be safely permitted, 
almost, if not <jnite, Co-extensively with our lines of military occupation. 

Should this view meet the approval of the generals commanding de- 
partments within your agency, the question of intercourse within the 
doubtful region between what may be called the commercial and the 
military line would be reduced to a question of the quantity of supplies 
allowed to be furnished for money. 

It is impossible at once to arrive at the best possible ways of accom- 
plishing the great objects which Congress had in view in the several 
acts relating to commercial intercourse ; but if these objects themselves 
be kept steadily in view, namely, (1st,) non-intercourse between loyal 
States or districts and States or districts controlled by insurgents ; and 
(2d) modified inter(;ourse between loyal States or districts and States 
or districts partially regained to the Union, the best modes of accom- 
plishing them will gradually disclose themselves. You will diligently 
observe the course of events, and hear attentively all suggestions made 
by respectable and loyal citizens, and report to me whatever may seem 
to you proper for consideration in establishing or modifying the regula- 
tions of the Department. 

Nothing occurs to me as needing to be now added, except that here- 
after the surpervising special agents may establish, in conjunction with, 
or obedience to, the generals commanding de])artments, lines within 
.which trade, more or less limited, may be carried on without awaiting 
my sanction, taking care, however, to give as general notice as prac- 
ticable, through the press and otherwise, of the establisment or modiH- 
cation of such lines. All action under this authority must be imme- 
diatel}' and specifically reported to the Department. 
With great respect, 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 

Wm. p. Mellen, Esq., 

kiuj)ervmng iSpecial Agent, &c. 



G2 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 
CIRCULAR, SEPTEMBER 11, 18G3. 

Treasury Department, Scpicmhcr 11, 18C5. 
To the Siyecial Agents of the Treasury Department : 

Gentlemen: Tlie President of the United States liaving, by procla- 
mation of July 1, 1S62, declared and proclaimed that the States of South 
Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, 
Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of Virfiinia, except 
the following- counties, Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, IMarshall, Wetzel, 
jMarion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Pleasants, Tyler, liitchie, Dod- 
dridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, "Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, IJar- 
bour. Tucker, Le\Yis, Braxton, Upshur, Pandolph, ]\Iason, Putiuim, 
Kanawha, Clay, o^^icholas, Cabell, Wayne, Bnone, Logan, Wyoming, 
Webster, Fayette, and Balcigh, are in insurrection and rebellion: 

And having also by i)roclamation on the 31st of March, 1803, revoked 
certain excci)tions made by his former ]noclamation dated August 16, 
1801, and declnrcd that the inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South 
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Ar- 
kansas, Mississii)pi, Florida, and Virginia (except the forty-eight coun- 
ties of Yirginia designated asAYest A'irginia, and except, also, "the ports 
of New Orleans, Key West, Poit Eoyal, and Beaufort, iu North Caro- 
lina,) are in a state of insurrection against the United States, and that 
all commercial intercourse, not licensed and conducted as provided in 
said act, between the said States and the inhabitants thereof with the 
exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other i)arts of 
the United States, is unlawful, and will remaii^ unlawful until such 
insurrection shall cease or has been sui)pressed, and notice thereof 
has been duly given by proclamation ; and all cotton, tobacco, and 
other products, and all other goods and chattels, wares, and merchan- 
dise coming from any of said States, with the exceptions atbresaid, into 
otlier parts of tlie United States, or proceeding to any of said States, 
Avith the excei)tions aforesaid, without the license and jjermission of the 
President, througli the Secretary of the Treasury, will, together with 
the vessel or vehicle couveying the same, be forfeited to the United 
States ; 

And the act of Congress "further to provide for the collection of 
duties on imjjorts, and for other purposes," approved July 13, 18G1, 
having authorized, said proclamation, and the license and regulations 
referred to; 

And the act of Congress supplementary to said act of July 13, 18G1, 
approved ^h\y 20, 1802, having conferred additional powers on said Sec- 
retary, and prescribed further conditions of trade; 

Ami tlie act of Congress approved ]\Iarch 12, 1803, entitled "An act 
to provide for the collection of aliandoned property and for the i»ieven- 
tion of frauds in insurrectionary districts withiu the United States," 
having declared 

" That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, from and 
after the passage of said act, as he shall from time to time see fit, tt) 
api)oint a si»ecial agent or agents to receive and collect all abandoned 
or captured propeity in any State or Territory, or any i)ortion of any 
State or Territory, of the United States designated as iu insurrection 
against the lawful Government of the United States by the proclama- 
tion of the President of July 1, 1802: Provifhtl, That such property shall 
not include any kind or description Avhich has beeu used, or which was 
intended to be used, for waging or carrying on war against the United 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 63 

States, sneli as arms, ordnance, sliips, steamboats, or other water-craft, 
and the furniture, forage, militiiry sn]>plies, or munitions of Avar;" 

Aud further, " that any jiart of the goods or property received or 
collected by such agent or agents may be appropriated to public use on 
due ai)])raisenieut and certilicate thereof, or forwarded to any place of 
sale within tbe loyal States, as the public interests may require, and that 
all sales of such property shall be at public auction to the highest bidder, 
aud the proceeds thereof sliall be paid into the Treasury of the United 
States:" 

x\nd further, 'Hhat he shall cause a book or books of account to be 
kept, showing- from whom such property was received, the cost of trans- 
portation, and the proceeds of tlie sale tbereot;" 

And further, " that any person claiming- to have been the owner of 
any such abandoned or captured projjcrty may, at any time within two 
years alter the sujipression of the rebellion, prefer his claim to the pro- 
ceeds thereof in the Court of Claims ; and on proof, to the satisfaction 
of said court, of his ownership of said property, of his right to the pro- 
ceeds thereof, and that he has never given any aid or comibrt to the 
l)resent rebellion, to receive the residue of such proceeds after deduct- 
ing- the expenses of transportation and sale of said property, aud any 
other lawful expenses attending- the disposition thereof;" 

And further, " that it shall be the duty of any ofiftcer or private of the 
regular or volunteer forces of the United States, or any officer, sailor, 
or marine in the naval service of the United States, upon the inland 
waters of the United States, who may take or receive any such aban- 
doned property, or cotton, sugar, rice, or tobacco, from persons in such 
insurrectionary districts, or have it under his control, to turu the same 
over to an agent appointed as aforesaid, who shall give a receipt there- 
for; and in case he shall refuse to do so he shall be tried by a court- 
martial, and i)unisheil as said court shall order, with the approval of the 
President of the United States;" 

And the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy having re- 
spectively made and published orders for the enforcing of said acts; 

The following- regulations are i)rescribed for the government of the 
several supervising, assistant, and local sjjecial agents and agency aids, 
ai»pointed to carry said acts and the regulations made under them into 
effect, and for the purpose of conducting the commercial intercourse li- 
censed and i)ermitted by the President, and preventing the conveyance 
of munitions of war and supplies to insurgents, or to localities declared 
to be in insurrection against the United States, or in such quantities that 
there will be imminent danger of their falling into the possession or 
under the control of insurgents ; and are published, together with the 
])roclamations and license of the President, the several acts of Congress, 
and the orders of the Secretaries of ^Yar and of the Navy, for the in- 
forination of parties interested. 

xVll officers charged with the execution of these regulations, while 
n sing necessary vigilance to prevent snpi)lies to rebels, either directh" or 
by undue accumulation at ])oints where there will be imminent danger 
of their falling into their hands, and in collecting abandoned or captured 
property, will be careful to occasion as little inconvenience as possible 
to any legitimate trade or intercourse, or to loyal people. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



TRADE REGULATIONS. 



executive order. 

Executive Mansion, 
Washiuf/ton, September 11, 1863. 
Tlio following rovisoil rcfjiilalious of tlie S»^';r<^t;ii'y of tlH» Treasury 
liaviiig been seen and considered by me, are lierel>v a|>|»roved. 

AliliAHAM LINCOLN. 



TRADK RKOULATIONS l'Iil':S( 'i.'HJHI) 1!Y 'I'lIK SKCI.'KTAI.'V f)F THK TREASURY 
lOiri'lIK (i()Vi;i,'N.MKNr <)K 'I'lir: IAMIVFA) CO.MMKIfCFAL INTKRCOURSE 
EICKXSKI) I'.Y'I'HK I'lv'KSIDIOXI I'.lOrWKKN TilK (MI'IZION.SOF LOYALSTATES 
ANDTIIK INIIAI'.I'I'ANTS OK S'I'ATICS ANI> I'AUTS OF STATES HEiJETOKORE 
DKCLAh'KD'JO I'.K JN INSURRE(JT10X, AS JiEVJSEI) AM) ri'liLISllEO SEl'- 
TEMliElt Jl, lM(;:i. 

DISTJMOTS (JREATED OALUEI) SPEniAL ACJENC'IES. 

T. Tlie States and parts of States de(;lared to b(^ in insurrection, be- 
tween wliicli and the eiti/ens of loyal States (;oininercial intercourse has 
been or may \n' lie(;nsed by the I'lcsident, to bo coii<liu;ted and carrie*! 
on in i)iirsiianee of re^idations and rules prescribed by the Secretary of 
th(^ Treasury, are hereby dividcMl into distiicis, ealle(l special aj;en(;ies, 
to which su])ervisin<4- s[)e(;ial a^^ents, aj)poiiited by the Secretary, areas- 
signed. 

.SPECIAL A(iKNf;iES NA:\IE1) AND DJCSCKIIJED, 

II. Th(! sp(!cial a^^encies are distinguished numerically, ami described 
as follows : 

The lirst special agency comprises the district of tlie United States 
■west of the Alleghany INIountains, known as the valley of the Missis- 
sipjii, and extending southwasd so as to incbub^ so much of the States 
of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana as is or may be oc- 
<!Upi<'(l by national Ibices operating IVom the north. 

Thesei'.ond spc(;ial a;i('n(;y compi'ises theStateof Virginiaand so much 
of the State of West Virginia as lies east of llu^ Alleghany Mountains ; 
also the teriitoiy north and east thereof, from whi<'h trade is carried on 
with the Stales or jtarts of States declai(Ml to be in insnrre(;tion. 

The thii'd sjjei'ial agency (;omi)rises the State of North (Jarolina. . 

The fourth spe<'ial agency comprises the States of South Carolina, 
(ieorgia, and I'Morida. 

The litth s]»ecial agency (iomprises the State of Texas and so much of 
the States of Louisiaim, Arkansas, Alabanm, and Mississppi as is, or 
may be, within tln^ lines of the natiomd buircs operating from the south. 

Additional six'cial agencies, if establisjied, will be nunuuically desig- 
nate<l in the order of their establishnuuit ; and if the boundaries of 
agencies already established shall be changed, due notice thereof will 
be given. 



TRADE REGULATIONS. 65 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS TO MAKE LOCAL RULES. 

III. Supervising special agents will supervise within tlieir respective 
agencies the execution of thes(! regulations ; make; and from time to time 
change such local rules, not inconsistent with tliem, as may l)e ])roper 
for that ]iMrpose, and temporarily siisi)eiMl or qualify the antliority to 
grant permits, if the piiblie interest shall n^qnire it, snl)Ject to the ap- 
proval of the Secret iry of the Treasury ; and they will confer w itii gen- 
erals commanding d<'i)arfments, ami naval oflicers commanding wifliin 
their agencies, and oiitain, as far as practicable, their sam-fion to such 
action as may aflect their militaiy or naval movements, and carefully 
avoid all interference with militaiy or naval operations prosecuted by 
them. 

OFFICERS BY WHOM REOUJ.ATIONS AND LOCAL RULES WILL BE CARRIED 

INTO EFFECT. 

IV. These regulations, and the local rules i)rescribed by the several 
supervising special agents for their respective agencies, will be carried 
into effect by assistant sjiecial agents, local special agents, ami agency 
aids. Local s[)e<;ial agents will take the X)lace and i)erform the duties of 
the boai'ds of trade heretofore authoiized. Assistant special agents will 
he appointed by the. Secretary of the Treasury ; local spef;ial agents and 
agency aids will Ije ai)]»ointc(i by the sujxnvising si)ecial agents, or as- 
sistant sju'cial agents, as under regulation XXX, subje(;t to the a[)i)ro- 
val of the Secretary. 

RESTRICTION UPON TRANSPORTATION. 

V. Xo goods or meichandise will be allowed to l)e transported to' 
from, or within any State or i)art of a State under restriction, or declared 
in insurrection, exce[)t und(,'r i>ermits, certificates, and clearances, as 
hereinafter i)rovided. 

OFFICERS AUTHORIZED TO GRANT PERMITS. 

YI. The officers of the Treasury Department authorized to grnnt per- 
mits to districts in States or parts of States heretofore declared to be in 
insurrection, but where commercial intercourse has been or may be li- 
censed by the President under regulations of the Secretary of the Treas- 
ury, are the surveyors of customs at Pittsburgh, \Vhe<?ling, Cincinnati, 
Madison, Louisville, Xew Albany, Evansville, Paducah, (Jairo, (^iiincy, 
Saint j-iouis, ]\Iemi)Iiis,and Laltimoie ; the collectors of customs at I'hila- 
delphia, (^eorgetcnvn, lieaufoit in North Carolina, and J*oit lloyal in 
South Carolina; and the collector of internal revenue at Xew Orleans. 
Other officers will be designated to grant permits should tin; ])ublic in- 
terest reriuire it; and no permit will be granted except by such oflicers 
as shall be autlnnized by the Secretary of the Treasury, or such as are 
api)roved by him. 

INTERCOURSE BEYOND THE LINE OF MILITARY OCCUPATION PROIU BI'I ED. 

VII. Commercial intercourse with localities beyond the lines of mili- 
tary occupation by the United States forces is strictly prohibited; and 
lo i)ermit will be granted for the transportation of any i>roi>erty to any 
pnace under the control of insurgents against the United States. 
5 A c 



6Q TRADE REGULATIONS. 

NO CLEAKAXCE OR PERMIT FOR BLOCKADED PORTS, EXCEPT AS A :\nLI- 

TARY NECESSITY. 

VIII. Ko clearaiieo or permit whatsoever will be granted for any sliip- 
nient to any i)()rt or place aftecteil by the existing" blockade, ex(;ei)t npoii 
the reqnest of the Department of War or the Department of the Navy, 
either directly or throngh a s])ecially authorized oflicer, addressed to 
the Secretary of the Treasury or to some officer specially authorized by 
him, accom[)anied by a certiticate that the articles are required for mil- 
itary or naval purposes, and in the manner and form prescribed by reg- 
ulation XXXII. 

TRADE DISTRICTS, HOW CREATED AND DEFESTED. 

IX. The several supervising special agents, within their respective 
agencies, will, after conference with the generals commanding depart- 
ments wlien possible, and with their sanction, unless unavoidable cir- 
cumstances prevent the obtaining of it, designate by known geographi- 
cal boundaries, or by enumeration of counties, that portion of territory 
included in their agencies, respectively, with which trade may be safely 
permitted, and report such designation to the Secretary. The part of 
territory so designated shall be called the trade district, and no trans- 
portation of goods, except as hereinafter provided, shall be jjermitted 
beyond the lines of such trade district. 

SUPPLY DISTRICTS, HOW CREATED AND DEFINED. 

X. If it shall appear that beyond the lines of the trade district, but 
within the lines of national military occupation, there is some territory 
within which the supply of necessaries is required by humanity and 
sound policy, while trade cannot yet be safely re-established, then the 
supervising special agents, with the sanction of the general command- 
ing department, but in no case without his sanction, and subject to rev- 
ocation or modilication by the Secretary, may in like manner designate 
the portion of territory in their respective agencies to which goods may 
be properly ])ermitted for individual and family sup|)ly, but for no other 
purpose. The territory so designated shall be called the su[)ply district, 
and no goods shall be transported thereto for resale except as provided 
in regulation XVIII. 

WHAT APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS SHALL STATE. 

XI. All applications for permits to transport goods or property under 
these regulations shall state the character and value of the merchandise 
to be transi)orted, the place to which such transi)ortation is to be made, 
the Jianu^s oi" the owner or purchaser, and, if any, of the shipper ami 
consignee thereof, and the number and description of the packages, with 
the marks thereon. 

APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS TO TRANSPORT GOODS, HOW MADE. 

XII. Every applicant for a permit to transport goods, wares, or mer- 
chandise into or within any place or section where such transportation 
may be ])ermitted, shall present with his application the original in- 
voices of the goods, wares, and nun'chandise to be transported, and shall 
file with the officer granting the permit the certificate of the local spe- 



TRADE EEGULATIONS. 67 

cial ageut authorizing it, if any be necessary, and an affidavit that the 
names of the owners, the quantities, descriptions, and values of the 
merchandise, are correctly stated in said invoices, true copies of which 
shall be annexed to and filed with the affidavit ; and that the marks on 
the packages are correctly stated in the application, and that the pack- 
ages contain nothing except as stated in the invoices ; that the mer- 
chandise so permitted shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be disposed 
of by him, or by his authority, connivance, or assent, in violation of the 
terms of the permit, and that neither the permit so granted, nor the 
merchandise to be transported, shall be so used or disposed of by him, 
or hy his authority, connivance, or assent, as in any way to give aid, 
comfort, information, or encouragement to persons in insurrection against 
the United States. All affidavits required by these regulations or by 
local rules shall be taken before a supervising, assistant, or local special 
agent, or some other authorized officei\ 

CERTIFICATE OF LOCAL SPECIAL AGENT, TO WHOM GIVEN, AND NO 
PERMIT WITHOUT CERTIFICATE, EXCEPT FOR FRUITS, VEGETA- 
BLES, ETC. 

XIII. No certificate shall be given by a local special agent in a State 
declared in insurrection for purchase of goods for resale, except to par- 
ties having trade stores under authority from the supervising special 
agent or assistant special agent designated by him, as hereinafter pro- 
vided ; and no permit shall be granted to transport merchandise into 
any such State, unless authorized by such certificate ; except that fresh 
vegetables, fresh fruits, ice, poultry, eggs, fresh butter, coal, wood, hay 
and other forage, beef-cattle, shee[), hogs, and householtl goods of fami- 
lies moving, may be permitted, by the officers named in regulation YI, 
to go to any not blockaded military post, tleet, or naval vessel, of the 
United States forces, Avithout such certificate, but under careful discre- 
tion to prevent abuse of the exception. 

APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE OR ESTABLISH TRADE 
STORES, TO WHOM AND HOW MADE. 

XIY. After a trade district in any agency shall be designated as 
aforesaid, x)ersons of well-ascertained loyalty desiring to continue or 
establish trade stores therein may make application in writing to the 
proper supervising special agent, or to such assistant special agent as 
he shall designate for that purpose, setting forth the locality of the pro- 
posed trade store, and will make and attach to such application an affi- 
davit that he is in all respects true to the Government of the United 
States ; that he will faithfully conform to the proclamations and orders 
of the President of the United States and of the military governors and 
generals exercising authority under him, and to departmental regula- 
tions authorized by law, and that he will at all times, by his conduct 
and conversation, and by every other means he can properly use, aid in 
suppressing the rebellion and restoring obedience to the Constitution 
and laws of the United States. The supervising special agent, or the 
otticer designated by him, will inquire into the character of the appli- 
cant and circumstances of the locality, and if deemed expedient will 
authorize him to sell at said trade store an amount of goods per month 
specified in the authority. A copy of the authority shall be tiled with 
the local special ageut nearest the trade store, who shall thereby be au- 
thorized to give the trader certificates amountiuii- in the aggregate to 



6S TRADE REGULATIONS. 

the sppcifioil 7nontlily sum, and upon wliicli jj'oods, wares, and merchan- 
dise not prohibited by re<inlations or hical rules may be permitted by 
the proi)er collector or surveyor to be transported to such trade store. 
Great care will be exercised by the supervising special agent and assist- 
ant special agent designated by him to so limit the number of stores 
and quantities of goods to be permitted as to prevent undue accumu- 
lation of su])plies at such stores ; and CA'cr^- trader, before receiving his 
authority, sliall be required to execute a bond to the United States in a 
penalty, and with sureties to be approved bj' the agent granting the 
authority, conditioned that he will not transport goods to any i)laee 
other than to said trade store, or engage directly or indirectly in any 
l)r()hibited trade, and that no part of the goods transported by him 
shall, with his knowledge or assent, or by his connivance, be so used or 
disposed of as to give aid or en(;ouragement to the insurgents ; and also 
conditioned that no military, naval, or civil ofticer, or person i)rohibited 
by law or by order of the President, or of military or naval command- 
ers having proper authority, from being interested in the property pur- 
chased or sold by him, shall be so interested therein. 

AUTHORIZED TRADERS NOT TO WHOLESALE, EXCEPT IN IMEMPIIIS AND 
NASHVILLE. — TO KEEP TRUE ACCOUNTS AND FILE AND PRESERVE 
PAPERS, — PENALTY FOR VIOLATING REGULATIONS OR LOCAL RULES. 

XV. Authorized traders (except in the cities of Memphis and Nash- 
ville, and such other cities or towns as may be hereafter designated by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, with the concurrence and approval of the 
general commanding department) shall not sell goods to others to be 
resold by them, but shall sell only to persons for their own individual, 
family, or i^lantation use, upon presentation of the permit for transpor- 
tation thereof of the proper local special agent, as provided in regula- 
tions XVI and XVII. In Memphis, Xashville, and other cities after 
designation as above, authorized traders may sell goods to other traders 
for purpose of resale, upon certificate of the i)roi)er local special agent. 
Persons and families residing in Memphis, Nashville, and other cities 
after designation thereof as above, may purchase supplies for their own 
consumi)tion at any trade store therein without any permit or certifi- 
cate ; but goods so sold shall not be transported out of said cities except 
under i)ermit of the proper officer, to be issued only upon the certificate 
of the local special agent, as i)rovided in regulation XVI. All author- 
ized traders shall kee]) true accounts of all their sales, with the name 
and residence of each purchaser, and the date and amount of every sale, 
and shall file and preserve all canceled permits under which goods have 
been trans[)orted, and copies of all permits under which sales have been 
made; and their books, invoices, accounts, canceled permits, and copies 
of permits shall be open to inspection of the sui)ervising special agent, 
or assistant si)ecial agents under his direction. If any kSUcIi trader shall 
violate any regulation or local rule, his authority shall be revoked by 
the sui)ervising si)ecial agent, or assistant special agent by him desig- 
nated, and said revocation reported to the Secretary, and his stock in 
trade seized and forfeited to the United States. 

WHEN LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS MAY PERMIT SUPPLIES, AND ON WHAT 

CONDITIONS. 

XVI. The purchase and trans])ortation of individual, family, and 
plantation supplies may be permitted by a local si)ecial agent, frojn any 



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trade store in that part of a trade district for wliich lie is appointed to 
tbe borne of the applicant therein, npon application to him by the liead 
of the family or such other person as shall be anthorized by him or her 
in writing-: provided, that the applicant shall make affidavit, and the 
agent shall be satisfied, that the supplies applied for are necessary for 
the use and consumption of such person or family during the two months 
next ensuing the date of the affidavit; that no part thereof will be sold 
or otherwise disposed of by him or her, or by his or her assent, except 
for use of such person or family ; and that to the best of his or her 
knowledge and belief, no application has been made for any permit for 
the same" or like supplies to any other officer or agent, and that no sup- 
plies for the period mentioned have been or are expected to be other- 
wise obtained ; and no one person shall be recognized as representing 
more than six families. 

AUTHORIZED COLLECTOR AND SURVEYOR MAY ALSO PERMIT SUPPLIES, 
WHEN AND ON WHAT CONDITIONS. 

Such transportation may also be permitted by any authorized.collect- 
or or surveyor out of the district for which the local special agent is 
appointed, upon his certificate and recommendation, granted upon the 
same application and affidavit as above required. 

CONDITIONS UPON WHICH PARTIES IN SUPPLY' DISTRICTS MAY OBTAIN 

SUPPLIES. 

XVir. Persons or families residing without the lines of the trade dis- 
trict, but within the lines ot a supi)ly district, may procure supplies on 
the certificate of the nearest local special agent that the supplies speci- 
fied therein are necessary for the use and consumption of such person 
or family lor a period of time not exceeding the month ensuing. All 
applications for such certificate must be made personally to the proper 
local special agent by such person, or a member of such family, or other 
person authorized by the head of the family : and the ai)plicant shall 
make and file with him an affidavit that the supplies applied for are 
necessary for the use and consumption of the person or family for the 
time specified, not exceeding one month next ensuing ; that no part 
thereof will be sold or otherwise disposed of by him or lier, or by his or 
her assent, except for the use of such person or family, and that to the 
best of his or her knowledge and belief no application has been made 
for the same or like supplies to any other officer or agent, and that no 
supplies for the period mentioned have been or are expected to be other- 
wise obtained ; and no person shall be recognized as representing more 
than six families. The certificate so obtained must be presented to the 
nearest collector or surveyor, who, upon being satisfie<i that it has been 
properly granted, will issue ai)ermitto the holder for the transportation 
of the articles specified therein ; but in cases where the supplies are 
purchased at a trade store, and there is no authorized collector or sur- 
veyor within five miles thereof, the local special agent nearest to such 
trade store may grant such permit, retaining the certificate and deliver- 
ing the permit to the applicant. Except in cases mentioned in this 
regulation and regulation XYI, no permit will be granted by any local 
special agent. 

WHEN TRADE STORE MAY BE AUTHORIZED IN SUPPLY DISTRICT. 

XVIII. Upon the request of the general commanding department, 
the proper supervising special agent may authorize the establishment 



70 TRADE REGULATIONS. 

of oiifi or more trade stores in any city or town of a. snpply district, 
under the same regulations as trade stores are establislied in trade 
districts, and subject to military orders; but the authority to establish 
any such store may be revoked, and the store discontinued by the 
supervising special agent, whenever the i^ublic interest may require it. 

WHEN PRODUCTS MAY BE BROUCIHT TO MARKET, AND ON WHAT CON- 
DITIONS SUPPLIES MAY BE TAKEN HOME. 

XIX. After any trade or supply district shall have been established, 
loyal and well-disposed persons residing therein may bring their prod- 
ucts to market, uidess prohibited by regulation, rale, or military order, 
and may be permitted by the proper collector or surveyor, on payment 
of prescribed fees, to sell the same for money other than gold or silver, 
and to take back to their res])ective homes so much of the proceeds of 
l)roducts so sold in individual, family, or plantation supplies, as shall 
be certitied by the local special agent nearest to the resi(lence of such 
person to be necessary for the use or cousumi)tion of the individual, 
family, or plantation, for a period not exceeding two months uext en- 
suing, if residing within the limits of a trade district, or one month if 
within the limits of a supply district; and any attempt to take back 
more than the (luantity so certified will debar the party all further 
privileges to bring products to market or to trade. 

PRODUCTS MAY BE PURCHASED UNDER PRESCRIBED CONDITIONS. 

XX. All proper and loyal persons may apply in the i)rescribed form 
to the proper snpervising special agent, or an assistant special agent 
designated by him, for authority to purchase, for money other than gold 
or silver, or to bring out, if raised or already purchased by apjdicant, 
any of the products of the country within tlie lines of national military 
occupation in his agency, excei>t when prohibited by order of the gen- 
eral commanding department or other special military order, and to 
transport the same to market; and, on making and filing with such 
agent an affidavit, in the prescribed form, and executing a bond with 
])enaltyand sureties to be approved by saul agent, and conditioned that 
he will pay or secure all fees required by regnlations, that he will m)t 
purchase products at any place other than that mimed in the authority, 
or engage directly or indirectly in prohibited trade, and that no mili- 
tary, naval, or civil ofliecr or person prohibited l)y law or by order of 
the President, or of military or naval commanders having proper author- 
ity, from being interested in the i)roperty purchased by him, shall be so 
interested therein, the sn]>ervising special agent, or assistant special 
agent designated by him, if he deems it expedient, may authoiize the 
proper officer to permit, on payment or security of the i)rescribed fees, 
the purchase and transportation of products as ai)i)lied for, except arti- 
cles prohibited. Upon ])resentation of such authority to any officer 
named in regulation VI, he may issue a permit for the ])nrchase, trans- 
portation, aiid sale of ju'oducts specified, in pursuance of the terms of 
the authority; but before delivering it he will recpiire the prescribed 
fees to be paid, or a bond therefor to be executed to the United States, 
with penalty and sureties ajiproved by him, <'onditioned that the fees 
for each shiiunent made under the permit shall be paid to him or some 
other proi)er officer at the time or within ten days after such shipment 
shall be made; ami that immediately after the making of any shii)ment 
by land or water under the permit, notice of such shipment shall be forth- 



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with given to the officer i.ssaing the permit, which notice shall specify the 
date and place of shipment, and contain or be accompanied by a descrip- 
tion of the property and the marks thereon, and a statement of its des- 
tination and the ronte thereto ; and that upon its arrival at any port 
where there is an officer of customs, a similar report shall be forthwith 
made to him. If any person obtaining a permit, and paying the fees 
therefor, shall purchase or tra^isport no merchandise under the same, or 
a less quantity than is permitted, the i'ees paid, or the proper proportion 
thereof, shall be refunded on application and due showing to the proper 
supervising special agent. 

Any neglect on the part of the person permitted to purchase and 
transport, or of any one acting for him, to comply with regulations 
and local rules, or with the conditions of the bond to the permit officer, 
shall work immediate forfeiture of all rights under the authority or per- 
mit, and any property purchased or transported under the same after 
such neglect shall be forfeited to tlie United States. 

CONDITIONS UPON WHICH PERMITS TO PURCHASE PRODUCTS MAY BE 

ISSUED. 

XXI. Every permit to purchase or sell cotton, tobacco, or other mer- 
chandise within any place or section in a State heretofore declared in 
insurrection, after commercial intercourse therewith shall have been per- 
mitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and every permit to transport 
the same thereto, therein, or therefrom, shall clearly define the charac- 
ter and quantity of the merchandise so permitted to be sold, purchased, 
or transported, and the place or section within which the same may be 
purchased or sold, and to and from which the same may be transported; 
and each person shall, before receiving such i)ermit, make affidavit that 
he is in all respects loyal and true to the Government of the United 
States; that he will faithfully conform to the proclamations and orders 
of the President of the United States, and of the military governors and 
generals exercising authority under him, and to departmental regula- 
tions authorized by law; and that he will at all times, by his conduct 
and conversation, and by every other means he can properly use, aid in 
suppressing the rebellion and restoring obedience to the Constitution 
and laws of the United States. 

TRANSPORTATION OF, OR PAYMENTS IN, COIN OR BULLION STRICTLY 

PROHIBITED. 

XXII. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section 
heretofore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except 
for military puri)oses, and under military orders, or under the special 
license of the President. x\nd no payment of gold or silver or foreign 
bills of exchange shall be made for cotton or other merchandise within 
any such State or section. All cotton or other merchandise ]>urchased 
in any such State or section, to be paid for therein, directly or indi- 
rectly, in gold or silver, or foreign bills of exchange, shall be forfeited 
to the United States. 

LIMITATION ANI>/ REVOCATION OF AUTHORITIES, CERTIFICATES, AND 

PERMITS. 

XXIII. Authorities to purchase jjroducts, unless renewed, and all cer- 
tificates of local special agents recommending permits for transportation, 



72 TRADE REGULATIONS. 

shall expire thirty (lays alter date. Permits for transportation shall 
expire ten days atter date ; and all authorities, certilieates, and permits 
will be liable to revocation by the Secretary of the Treasury, or the 
proper supervising special agent, as the public interests may require. 

sutlers' permits, how obtained and upon what conditions. 

XXIV. Permits will be granted to sutlers to transport to the regi- 
ments sutlered by them such articles as they are authorized to sell, free 
of the live per cent, fee; but no permit will be granted to a sutler except 
on presentation to the proper permit oflUcer of the original certificate of 
his appointment from the commanding officer of his regiment, counter- 
signed by the division commander thereof, and an api)lication and affi- 
davit in the form prescribed. Transportation shall not be permitted to 
any sutler for an amount of goods exceeding $2,500 per month ; nor for 
over two mouths' supply at one time; nor for any goods except such as 
he is by law and War Department orders allowed to deal in. 

SUPPLIES MOVING UNDER MILITARY ORDERS OR UNDER CONTRACT. 

XXV. Supplies and other property belonging to the United States 
for the use of the Army or Xavy, nu)ving under military or naval orders, 
are exce[)ted from the operation of these regulations. Supplies for the 
Army or Xavy, fnrnished under contract, will be permitted, free of 
charge, upou the certificate of the proper military or naval officer that 
such supplies are required and are to be sliii)ped in fulfillment of an 
actual existing contract with the Government. 

RESTRICTED DISTRICTS, NOT DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, TO AYHICH 
GOODS MUST BE PERMITTED. 

XXVI. In order to prevent, under the pretense of legitimate trade, 
the conveyance of supplies which there is reason to believe are ulti- 
mately intended for persons in rebellion against the Government, or for 
jdaces under the control of insurgents, and to prevent undue accumula- 
tion of goods at points in dangerous proximity to districts under control 
of insurgents, transportation of any goods, wares, or merchandise, with- 
out the permit of a duly authorized officer of this Department, is ]>ro- 
hibited to any place on the south side of the Potomac Pix'er, or to any 
place on the north side of the Potomac and south of the Washington 
and Annapolis llailroad, or on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or 
on the south side of the Ohio liiver below Wheeling, except Louisville, 
or on the west side of the Mississippi Piver below the mouth of the Des 
Moines, except Saint Louis. 

CONDITIONS UPON WHICH GOODS TO RESTRICTED DISTRICTS MAY BE 

PERMITTED. 

XXVII. Permits for shipment of goods into districts or places with 
which commercial intercourse is restricted, but which have not been de- 
clared to be in insurrection, may be grante<l by collectors or sur- 
veyors of customs, or other si)ecially authorized officers of the Depart- 
ment located near the ])oint of destination, in confonuity with regulations 
and local rules ; and collectors or surveyors at any other i)ort or place, 
when applied to by i)arties wishing to make shipments into such districts 
or places, if satisfied of the loyalty of such parties and the good faith 



TRADE REGULATIONS. 73 

of the proposed transaction, may furnish certificates to that effect, which 
will be received as sufticient evidence on those points by the collector, 
surveyor, or other proper officer near the point of destination, to whom, 
application for permits will be nmde hy the shipper, and by whom, on 
compliance with regulations and local rules, such permits will be granted; 
and all questions of detention or seizure of goods en route to points above 
indicated will be decided b^^ the collector or surveyor at the last port to 
be passed before entering a restricted district. Any information touch- 
ing the character of any goods or transaction in the possession of any 
officer of this Department likely to be useful in such decisions should 
be promptl}' forwarded to the officer on whom rests the decision or who 
grants the permits, and also to the Secretary. 

NO VESSEL OR OTHER VEHICLE SHALL CARRY GOODS INTO, OR PUT OFF 
GOODS IN, RESTRICTED DISTRICTS WITHOUT PERMIT. 

XXVIII. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle, used for transportation 
from any place in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or mer- 
chandise into any place, section, or State not declared in insurrection, 
but with which commercial intercourse has been or may be restricted, 
without the permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury Depart- 
ment, application for which permit may be made to such authorized 
officer near' the point of destination as may suit the convenience of the 
shipper. Nor shall any vessel, boat, or other craft, or vehicle used for 
transi)ortation, put off any goods, wares, or merchandise, at any i)Iace 
other than that named in the permit or clearance as the place of desti- 
nation of such goods, wares, aud merchandise. 

BOATS ON WESTERN WATERS MUST PRESENT MANIFEST AND CLEAR- 
ANCE. 

XXTX. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters 
south of Louisville or Saint Louis, or other waters within or adjacent 
to any State or section, commercial intercourse with which now is, or 
may hereafter be, restricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any port 
where there is a collector or surveyor of customs, there shall be exhibited 
to the collector or surveyor, or such other officer as may be authorized 
to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo, and a clearance 
obtained to proceed on its voyage; and when freights are received on 
board at a place where there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter 
provided in regulation XXX, then the same exhibit shall be made aud 
clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such an 
officer, if required by him, and such vessel or boat shall be reported aud 
the manifest of its cargo exhibited to the collector or surveyor of every 
port to be passed on the trip where there is such an officer, if required 
by him ; but no new clearance shall be necessary unless additional 
freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. Im- 
mediately on arriving at the port of final destination, and before dis- 
charging any part of the cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the 
surveyor of such port, or other officer authorized to act iu his stead, 
whose approval for landing the cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest 
before any part thereof shall be discharged ; and the clearance and 
shipping permits of all such vessels and boats shall be exhibited to the 
officer in command of any naval vessel or military post whenever such 
officer maj" require it. 



74 TRADE REGULATIONS. 

AGENCY AIDS "WILL BE APPOINTED ON CARS AND BOATS. 

XXX. To facilitate trade, and to nuard against improper transporta- 
tion, agency aids will be appointed by the proper supervising special 
agent, or under bis direction by an assistant special agent, from time to 
time, on cars, vessels, and boats when desired by owners, agents, or 
masters thereof, which aids will have free carriage on the respective 
cars, vessels, and boats on which they are placed, and will allow proper 
Avay freights to be taken on board without i)ermit, keeping a statement 
thereof, and reporting the same to the first officer to be passed on the 
trip who is authorized to grant the permit desired, from whom a permit 
therefor must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to the shipper 
under his direction. Xo permit will be granted for transportation into 
or within any State or district under restriction, or declared in insurrec- 
tion, except on cars, vessels, and boats carrying such aids, or by i)rivate 
conveyance specified in the permit, or on boats, vessels, or cars bonded 
not to receive anything on board for trans[)ortation during the trip, nor 
to land or discharge anything at any point except that of ultimate desti- 
nation without proper permit. 

CONDITIONS ON WHICH CLEARANCES AND PERMITS MAY BE OBTAINED 
FROM PORT NOT BLOCKADED TO PORT OPENED BY PROCLAMATION. 

XXXI. Boats and vessels may be cleared and merchandise not pro- 
hibited may be permitted, from any port which has not been blockaded 
to any i)ort which has been blockaded but opened by proclamation, 
upon payment of such fees only as were chargeable therefor before the 
blockade was declared, but subject to regulations XXXV, XXXVI, 
XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XL, and upon giving bond not to 
land or discharge any of such merchandise at any intermediate point, 
except under permit authorized by these regulations. But no goods, 
wares, or merchandise shall be shipped or transported from or out of 
such opened port, except under permits granted upon compliance with 
regulations and local rules, and payment of the fees prescribed in regula- 
tion XLII. 

APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS TO BLOCKADED PORTS, HOW MADE. 

XXXII. Ai)plicants for permits to ship to any port or j^lace affected 
by the existing blockade, but occupied by United States forces, must 
present, with their application, a certificate from the Department of 
AV^ar, or Department of the Xavy, either directly or through a duly 
authorized officer, that the articles are required for military or naval 
purposes, and a request that the trans])ortation of the same may be 
permitted, together with invoices in duplicate of the articles to be per- 
mitted, si)ecifying their character, quantity, value, and destination. Ou 
receiving sucli certificate and recpiest and duplicate invoices the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, or some officer s[)ecially authorized by him, will 
transinit to the pro] )er officer one of the invoices, and direct the permit- 
ting of the transportation requested, and forward the other invoice to 
the assistant or local special agent at the port or place to which the 
goods are to be permitted. The assistant or local special agent will, in 
all cases, on the arrival of any articles (jlaimed to have been permitted, 
examine and compare such articles with the dupli<;ate invoice; and in 
case of any excess or evasion of the permit, he will seize the whole 



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sTiipment, and report tlie facts forthwith to the supervising special agent, 
that proceedings may be taken for their forfeiture under the acts of July 
13, ISGl, May tiO, 18G2, and JMarch 12, 1803. 

LICENSES MAY BE GRANTED BY CONSULS TO BLOCKADED PORTS RE- 
OPENED. 

XXXIII. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by the 
proclamation of the President, license will be granted by the United 
States consuls, on application by the proper parties, to vessels clearing 
from foreign ports to the ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence 
that the vessel so licensed will convey no person, property, or informa- 
tion contraband of war, either to or from said ports, which li(;euse shall 
be shown to the collector of the port to which the vessel is bound, and 
if required to any officer in charge of the blockade. And on leaving 
any port so opened, the vessel must have a clearance from the collector, 
according to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. 
Any violation of the conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemna- 
tion of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned 
from entering the United States for any purpose during the war. 

CLEARANCES FROM DOMESTIC PORTS MAY BE GRANTED. 

XXXIY. Vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports so 
opened will apply to the custom-house ofticers of the i^roper ports, iu 
the usual manner, for licenses or clearances under the reg'ulations here- 
tofore established. 

BONDS MAY BE REQUIRED IN CERTAIN CASES. 

XXXV. AVhenever application is made to a collector, or surveyor 
authorized to grant it, for a permit, license, or clearance, for either a 
foreign or domestic port, if for satisfactory reasons he shall deem it 
necessary to prevent the cargo of the vessel from being used in aflbrd- 
ing aid or comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against the 
authority of the United States, he shall require a bond to be executed 
by the master or owner of the vessel, in a penalty equal to the value of 
the cargo, and with sureties to the satisfaction of such collector or sur- 
veyor, conditioned that the said cargo shall be delivered at the desti- 
nation for which it is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof 
shall be used in aftbrding aid or comfort to any person or parties in 
insurrection against the anthority of the United States, with the knowl- 
edge or consent or connivance of the owner or shipper thereof, or with 
the knowledge, consent, or connivance of the master of the vessel on 
which tbe same uuiy be laden, or of other persons having control of the 
same, until after delivery to the proper consignee, and the sale or other 
disposition by him, in good faith, of said cargo. 

CLEARANCES MAY BE REFUSED IN CERTAIN CASES. — VESSELS MAY 

BE SEIZED. 

XXXVI. Collectors and surveyors will refuse clearances and permits 
to all vessels, or other vehicles, whether with or without cargo, destined 
for a foreign or domestic iiort, whenever they shall have satisfactory 
reason to believe that such vessels or their cargoes, or any part thereof, 
whatever may be their ostensible destination, are intended for ports or 



76 TRADE RELULATIONS. 

places in possiession or under control of insurj:;ents ag'ainst the United 
States. And if any vessel or other veliicle for which a clearance or 
permit shall have been refused as aforesaid shall depart, or attempt to 
depart, for a foreign or domestic port, Avithont beini;- duly cleared or per- 
mitted, such collector, or surveyor, or the supervising^' special agent, or 
assistant special agent, shall cause such vessel or vehicle to be seized 
and detained, and proceedings to be instituted for the forfeiture to the 
United States of such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel, 
furniture, and cargo. 

MERCHANDISE, IN WHATEVER LOCALITY, LIABLE TO REACH INSUR- 
GENTS, OWNER TO GIVE BOND. 

XXXYII. When any collector, surveyor, supervising-, assistant, or 
local special agent, charged with the execution of these regulations, and 
the laws authorizing them, shall iiiul within his proper limits any goods, 
wares, or merchandise which, in his oi)inion, founded on satisfactory 
evidence in writing, are in danger of being transported to insurgents, 
he may recpiire the owner or holder thereof to give reasonable security 
that they shall not be transported to any x)lace under insurrectionary- 
control, and shall not in any way be used to give aid or encouragement 
to the insurgents. 

IF NO SECURITY GIVEN, GOODS TO BE TAKEN POSSESSION OF. 

If the required security be not given, such officer shall promptly state 
the facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such 
goods are situated; or if there be no United States marshal, then to 
the commander of a near military post, whose duty it shall be to take 
possession thereof, and hold them for safe-keeping, reporting the facts 
promptly to the Secretary of the Treasury, and awaiting instructions. 

PROHIBITED ARTICLES. 

XXXVIII. Xo clearance or permit will be granted for the shipment 
of prohibited articles, viz : cannon, mortars, lire-arms, i)istols, bombs, 
grenades, powder, saltpeter, sulphui', balls, bullets, ])ikes, swords, board- 
ing-caps, (always excepting the quantity of the said articles which may 
be necessary for the defense of the sliii) and of those who compose the 
crew,) saddles, bridles, cartridge-bag material, percussion and other 
caps, clothing adapted for uniforms, sail-cloth of all kinds, hemp and 
cordage, intoxicating drinks, other than beer and light native wines, or 
other articles i)rohibited by the pro])er authorities, except upon certifi- 
cate and request under regulation XXXII, or by the special direction 
of the supervising special agent sanctioned by the general commanding 
department or district into or from which the shipment is to be made. 

VESSELS TO REPORT TO GUN BOATS OR REVENUE-CUTTERS. 

XXXIX. Every vessel, on approaching a gun-boat or revenue-cutter, 
or vessel appearing to be such, before proceeding further, shall bear up 
and speak said boat or cutter, and submit to such examination as may 
be required. 

VIOLATIONS OF THESE REGULATIONS, HOW PUNISHED. 

XL. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation, 
violating regulations or local rules, and all cotton, tobacco, or other 



TEADE REGULATIONS. 77 

mercbaiulise shipped or transpoi'ted or purcliascd or sold in violation 
tbeieof, will be forfeited to tbe United States. If any false statement 
be made or deception practiced in obtaining- an antbority, certiticate, or 
permit nnder tbese regnlations, sucb antliority, certiticate, or permit, 
and all others connected tberewitb orattected tbereby, will beabsolntely 
void, and all mercbaiulise pnrcbased or shipped nnder them shall be 
forfeited to tbe United States. In all cases of forfeitnre, as aforesaid, 
immediate seiznre will be made and proceedings institnted promptly 
for condemnation. Tbe attention of all officers of the Government, 
common carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, masters, conductors, 
agents, drivers, and other persons connected with the transportation of 
merchandise, or trading therein, is particularly directed to tbe acts of 
July 13, 1801, May 120, ^802, and March 12, 1803, and to tbe orders of 
tbe Secretaries of War and of the Xavy hereto appended. 

PACKAGES TO OFFICERS AiXD SOLDIERS, HOW SENT. 

XLI. In cases where military or naval commanders shall have ordered 
all packages sent by friends to the officers and soldiers of their com- 
mand to be delivered only to designated regimental or vessel officers 
for delivery to the i)roper parties, such packages may be transported, 
without collector's or surveyor's ])ermits, by the Adams Express Com- 
pany, or other carriers having authority for that pur[)ose from tbe Sec- 
retary of the Treasury, on such carriers giving bond conditioned to 
render a true account of all such packages by them transported, and to 
carry no goods without proper permits, other than such packages. 

XLII. The following fees are prescribed : 

Fee for administering oath and certifying affidavit 10 cents. 

Fee for each authority from agent 3 dollars. 

Fee for certificate of local special agent 10 cents. 

Fee for each permit for purpose of trade 20 cents. 

Fee for each permit to purchase cotton in any insurrectionary 
district, and to transport tbe same to any loyal State, per 
pound 4 cents. 

Fee for permit so to purchase and transport tobacco, per hhd. 2 dollars. 

Fee for permit so to purchase or sell and transport to or from 
such district other products, goods, wares, or merchandise, 
five* ])er centum on the sworn invoice value thereof at tbe 
place of shipment. 

Fee for eacli permit for individual, family, or plantation sup- 
plies, on every purchase over $20 and not over $50 5 cents. 

Ditto on every purchase over $50 and not over $100 . . . 10 cents. 

Ditto on every [)urchase over $100 15 cents. 

For permits for individual, family, or plantation supplies, not 
over $20 in amount, no charge is allowed, except for reve- 
nue stamps on affidavits and certificates in districts nnder 
restriction; and no charge, except 5 cents for permit and 
5 cents for each revenue stamp on affidavit and certificate, 
is allowed in States declared in insurrection. When pur- 
chases are less than $5 the permit-officer may dispense with 
affidavits and certificates when no ground to suspect fraud 
or imposition appears. 

* Chauged to three by letter of March 21, 1864. See page 91. 



78 TRADE REGULATIONS. 

INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS T<J BE ATTACHED. 

XLirr. riiterii.nl rovcimc stiunps uic, r('(|nir<',(l l)y law to l)o attaclied 
to alliduNits, ccrMdcatcs, and bonds, hut not to any otlicr insfniiiiciits 
or \vri(iii};s proviiUMl lor l>y tlicsc, i<'^iilalioiis. Stainiis will he, fiiniislicd 
by tii(^ proper .s[)(',(;ial a<;«Mit.s at the rates lixcd by tluj internal revenue 
act, namely : 

For aflidavits 5 eents. 

For eertificate.s of loeal special agents or collectors and sur- 
veyors ... r> cents. 

For bonds • 25 cents. 

OFFICERS :i"0 KEEP RECORD OF PERMITS AND FEES RECEIVED, AND 

MAKE REPORTS. 

XldV. Every ofTicer authorized by the S(M-,retary of the Treasury to 
jifrant p<'rniits uiMha- these i'ej;ulations shall keep in his oHice a re(;ord 
of eveiy peiiuit j;ranted by hiui, showiuj;' the names of the ownei', ship- 
per, an<l ('(»nsi<;ii('e, the i»lace from and to whicth (;ach transpoitation is 
])einiit led, tin; cliaiacler and invoice value of the merchiindise jMMinitted, 
and shall transmit to the Secretary, and also to the proper supervising' 
spcciid ag<*nt, as near as jjossilih; on the first day of every month, a 
transcript of such record ; and will also at the same time transmit to 
thesiipeivising s[)ecijd agent an abstra<!t statement showing th<; ix'rniits 
granted daily to parts of States not declared in insurrection, but in 
which trad<^ is I'cslricted, and also showing the]>ermits gi-anted daily to 
Slal<'S (h'clared in insurrection, with the invoice value of the m(;r(;liau- 
dise permitted, th(! i'ees received, and the- disj)osition mad(i of the same, 
togetiu'r with the names of all agency aids reporting to liim, and the 
comi)ensalion paid to each. 

SUPERVISING, ASSISTANT, AND LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS TO PAY OVER 

MONEY AS RliCElVED. 

XLV. All money received by ea(;h assistant or local special agent 
shall b(^ i>aid ONcr as promptly as possible to the supervising special agent 
or to an assistant treasurer or designated depositary as directed by Iiim, 
and s() that all ]'e(;ei])ts during each nu)nth shall be paid over Ixdbre the 
making of his icquired monthly icport; and all money received by each 
sujx'rvising special agent or collector, surveyor, or otiier ollicicr author- 
i/,e<l to grant permits under these regulations, shall be ])romptly paid 
over to the assistant treasurer or designated depositary most convenient 
to him, and so that all receipts for each month shall be so i)aid over 
l)efore Wnt making of his monthly rc[)ort. 

(JFJ'ICERS AUTHORIZED TO RE(nClVE MONEY TO REPORT ON FIRST OF 

EACH MONTH. 

XLVI, I'iVery oHiccr authorized to rec-eive money under these regu- 
lations shall Iransmit to the S(M;retary on tiie liist of each month a re- 
port, staling in delail all moneys so I'cceived by him dui'ing the ])r(H!ed- 
ing month, and from what soui'c<'s received, together with all expenses 
of his offuM^ incidental to the e\e(;ulion of these regulations; and if any 
money has been paid out or otherwise disi>osed of by him during the 
month, an account thereof, and by what authority, to whom, or for what 
purpose it was so i)aitl or disposed of, with the voucbers thereof. A 



TRADE REGULATIONS. 79 

duplicate of this report and account shall at the same time be trans- 
mitted to the snpervisiiij;- special agent for the agency in which it shall 
be made, and a triplicate to the Commissioner of Customs. 

ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENTS SHALL KEEP RECORD, ETC. 

XL VII. Assistant special agents shall keep a record of all their oflicial 
transactions, showing sjiecifically and in detail every authority given to 
traders, (regulation XIV,) every authority for the purchase of i)ro(lucts, 
(XX,) every inspection of tra<le store and the results thereof, (XV,) 
all a])i)ointnients of agency aids on cars, vessels, and boats, and the com- 
pensation of each, (XXX,) all seiznrcKS in cases of excess or evasion of 
permits to blockaded ports, (XXXII,) all seizures or detentions of ves- 
sels or vehicles dej^arting, or attempting to depart, "when clearance has 
been refused, (XXXVI,) all cases of security recpiired when goods found 
in danger of being transported to insurgents, and if security not given, 
the action taken by them, (XXXVIl,) all fees re(;eived i'or a(h<lavits, 
{uithorities to traders, and for the [)nrchase of i)roducts, ami from whom, 
and for what received, (XIV, XX, XLII.) And they shall, on the first 
day of every month, ti'ansmit to the i)roper supervising special agent a 
transcript of such record, and all bonds or securities received by them 
under these regulations, (XIV, XX, XXXVIl.) 

LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS SHALL KEEP A RECORD, ETC. 

XLVIII. Local spe(;ial agents shall keej) a record of every authority 
to trade or to purchase products presented by the holder theieof, and of 
all certificates given to traders, or for permits to purchase and transport 
products, (regulation XIV;) of all permits for i)urchase and transporta- 
tion of su[)plies for trade store, and certilicates to buy suj)plies else- 
where than in trade district, (XVI;) of all i)ermits grante<l where there 
is no collector or surveyor within five mil(\s of tra<le store, (XVII ;) of 
all certificates to persons bringing i)roducts to nnirket and taking back 
supplies, (XIX;) of all excess or evasion of permits in shipments to 
blockaded ports, and their action tlieieon, (XXX 11;) of all cases of 
bonds required of owners or holders of goods in danger of being trans- 
ported to insurgents, and their action where bond not given, (XXXVIl;) 
of all permits under regulations XVI and XVII, showing all that is re- 
quired by those regulations and of all fees recpiired for ccitificates, 
affidavits, and permits, (XII, XVI, XVII, XIX, XLLI.) Ami they will 
also, as nearly as possible on the first day of every month, transmit to 
the i>roper supervising special agent a transcript of such I'ecord, and 
will deliver to such agent all bonds or securities received by them under 
these regulations, (XXXVIl.) 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS SHALL KEEP RECORD, ETC. 

XLIX. Supervising special agents shall keep a record of all their 
official transactions, showing fully the mnne ami location of each local 
special agent and agency aid api)ointed by them, and the compensation of 
each, (regulation IV;) of conferen<;es with generals comnuinding depart- 
ments and designations of trade and snp[)ly districts, (IX, X;) of all 
authorities given for trade stores, stating the date, nanu^ of trader, local- 
ity, and amount of goods autliorized, (XIV;) of the inspection of 
trade stores and the results, (XV;) of all trade stores authorized in any 
cit}' or town of a sui)ply district, the date, mime of trader, and amount 



80 TRADE REGULATIONS. 

of jjoods authorized, and of the discontinuance of any sucli store, 
(XVIII ;) of all authorities given for the purchase of products, to whom 
given, and the locality where i)urchases are to be made, (XX;) of all 
revocations of authorities, certiticates, and permits, (XXIII;) of all 
information touching any goods or transactions given to other officers 
of the Department, (XXVII ;) of all appoiutments of agency aids upon 
cars, vessels, and boats, (XXX;) of all seizures and detentions of 
vessels or vehicles departing or attempting to depart, after clearance 
has been refused, (XXXYI ;) of all securities required and received of 
owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, 
and of their action if security was not given, (XXXVII.) And on the 
first day of every month, as nearly as possible, they shall transmit to 
this Department a transcrii)t of such record for the previous month, 
together with a copy of the transcripts of records and a statement of 
all boiuls and securities received by them from assistant and local 
special agents. 

REGULATIONS SHALL SUPERSEDE ALL OTHERS. 

L. These regulations shall supersede those of ]March 31, 1SG3, and all 
others contlicting herewith, affecting commercial intercourse with States 
declared in insurrection ; and all permits hereafter granted by any 
officer of the Treasury Department will be granted in pursuance of them 
and of the local rules authorized by them, or by virtue of authority 
hereafter given by the Secretary of the Treasury; but all permits 
granted and acts done in pursuance of former regulations shall be valid 
and effectual until the 15th day of October, 18(53, unless the regulations 
shall have been sooner received and made known at the place of such 
permits or acts. 



REGULATlOiNS 



PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR THE GOVERN- 
MENT OF THE SEVERAL SPECIAL AGENTS AND AGENCY AIDS APPOINTED 
IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT OF 12TH MARCH, 1863, ENTITLED "AN ACT 
TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND 
FOR THE PREVENTION OF FRAUDS IN INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS 
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES." 



TERRITORY DIVIDED INTO DISTRICTS CALLED SPECIAL AGENCIES. 

I. The territory of the United States designated as in insurrection 
against the lawful government of the United States by the proclama- 
tion of the President, July 1, 1862, to which special agents have been 
assigned to receive and collect abandoned and captured property, is 
divided into districts called special agencies, numerically designated 
and described as follows, viz : 

Tlie'first special agency comprises the district of the United States 
west of the Alleghany Mountains, known as the valley of the Missis- 
sippi, and extending southward so as to include so much of the States 
of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana as is or may be 
occupied by national forces operating from the north. 

The second special agency comprises the State of Virginia, and so 
much of West Virginia as lies east of the Alleghany Mountains. 

The third special agency comprises the State of North Carolina. 

The fourth special agency comprises the States of South Carolina, 
Georgia, and Florida. 

The fifth special agency comprises the States of Texas and Louisiana, 
and so much of the States of Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi as is 
or may be within the lines of the national forces operating from the 
south. 

If additional special agencies shall be established they will be numer- 
ically designated in the order of their establishment. And if the 
boundaries of agencies already established shall be changed, due notice 
thereof will be given, 

DESIGNATION OF AGENTS, 

IL Supervising special agents and assistant special agents will be 
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and local special agents 
and agency aids will be ap{)ointed by supervising special agents, or 
under their direction by assistant special agents, subject to the approval 
of the Secretary, to carry into effect the said act and these regulations. 

AGENTS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO COLLECT AND RECEIVE ALL 
ABANDONED J'ROPERTY, 

IIL Supervising and assistant special agents are authorized and 
directed to receive and collect all abandoned and captured property 
found within their respective agencies and within the lines of military 
occupation by the United States forces, except such as has been used 
or was intended to be used for waging or carrying on war against the 
United States, viz : arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats, or other water- 
craft and their furniture, forage, military supplies, and munitions of 
war. 

G A c 



82 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED rKOPEKTV. 

AlJANDONEl) AND (JAPTUEED PROPEIITY. 

IV. Abandoned property is of two des(;riptioii.s : tirsi, tliat which 
has been or may be deseited by the owners; and second, that which 
has been or may be voluntarily abandoned by the owners to the civil or 
military authorities ot the United States. 

Cajjtured proi>erty is that which has been or may be seized or taken 
from hostile possession by the military or naval lorees of the United 
States. 

SPECIAL AC;ENTS wile (,^0LLECT and KECEIVE PEOPEUTV, AND MAKE 
AND KEEP A TRUE RECORD AND ACCOUNT OF EXPENSES. 

\'. Supervising and assistant special agents v\ill exercise due diligence 
iu receiving and collecting, within the agency to which they have been 
respectively assigned, all abandoned and captured property, and upon 
taking possession of any such property will immediately make and keep 
a lull and correct record of all the facts or iuformadou in regard to each 
case or lot known or accessible to them, including, as nearly as possi- 
ble, the following : The character and (juantity of the property received 
or collected ; where captured, or found, or received as abandonctl ; un- 
der Aihat circumstances ; by whom owned or alleged to be owned ; 
noting, where practicable, the name and address of one or more truthful 
residents of the neighborhood acquainted with the property and the 
owner or claimant thereof, and any statements they may make in con- 
nection therewith ; by whom such i)roperty was ca[)tured or abandoned ; 
by whom received or collected ; from whom received ; all names, imirks, 
signs, or devices, (whether distinct, indistinct, or partially erased,) upon 
such pro})erty ; together with all other information which may in any 
way serve to identify or make known the history of any particular lot, 
or to trace the same, or the proceeds thereof, from the earliest period 
possible to its linal disi)osition. 

They will also charge against each lot and keep ;i true and detailed 
ac(;ouiit in trii)licate of each item of expense incurred in its collection, 
transportation, ca^e, and sale; or where two or more lots are treated 
togetlier, a fair and just proportion against each, as well as all fees due 
in any way to the Government thereon. 

One copy of this record will be promptly transmitted to the super- 
vising special agent, to whom or to whose order the proi)erty so received 
and collected will be delivered, another to the Secretary of the Treas- 
nry, and the third will be retained by the assistant special agents for 
their hies. 

AGENTS MILL RECEIA^E VOLUNTARILY ABANDONED PROPERTV, AND 
GIVE RECEIPTS AND TAKE S'J'IPULATIONS. 

VI. Supervising and assistant special agents will receive within their 
respective agencies any proi)erty from i)ersons who olier voluntarily to 
abandon the same, anil shall give a receipt therefor to the person so 
abandoning it, or to his or her agent, in the following form : 



Received of. .... 




., of the county of 


.., in tli(! State of 










t'stiui;itc(l at ft 

ibllows : 


, claimed by.. 


, , as tlie owner tlicrcof, 


and nnniberod a.-* 



; which a^< .sjiccial a^ent of tlie T^ca^^n^y Dcpavtinent, at tlic ie(in*\st 



ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPEIITI'. 83 

of 

1 have received as abaiiduiied property, to l>e forwarded to 

, and disposed- of ia accordance with the act of Cougress approved 

March 12, 18G3. 

And shall make three copies of said receipt, of which he shall send 
one to the Secretary of the Treasury, one to the supervising special 
agent, and keep one for his files ; and in all cases of so receiving volun- 
tarily abandoned property, the agent shall reciuire from the owner or 
person so abandoning it a statement and stipulation in triplicate, in the 
following form : 

, special agent of the Treasury Department, has this day 

recei ved from m a as abaiidoued property 



marked and numbered as foUows : 

whicli the said lias received 

at my request, to l)e transported to the special agent of the Government in the city of 

, appointed to receive and dispose of such projferty, subject 

to the deductions ])rescribed by the act approved March 12, IS'ji, and the fees desig- 
nated by the XlVth regulation prescribed bv the Secretary of the Treasnry, September 
11, IH&.i. 

And I hereby actpiit and discharge the said , and all 

other officers of the Govern men t, from all personal liability on account of the said i)roperty. 
except such as may result from an unfaithful discharge of their duties in transporting 
or disposing of it. • 

And in case of any loss or damage to the said property in its transportation or other- 
wise, neither the Government of the United States nor any of its agents shall be held 
rcs[ionsible therefor. 

A record of all property so receiv'ed and of the expenses incurred in 
connection therewith shall be made, and copies transmitted, and the 
property shall be disposed of in tlie manner prescribed in regulation V. 

AGENTS TO COLLECT AND RECEIVE FROM OFFICERS AND PRIVATES, 
SAILORS OR MARINES, ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND GIVE RECEIPT. 

VII. Supervising and assistant special agents will receive and collect 
abandoned pro})erty from any officer or private of the regular or volun- 
teer forces of the IJnited States, or any officer, snilor, or marine in the 
naval service of the United States, upon the inland waters of the 
United States, who may take or receive any such abandoned })roperty, 
from persons in such insurrectionary districts, or have it under their 
control, and such supervising or assistant special agent will, in all such 
cases, give a receipt therefor in the following forni : 

Received of 



estimated at $ 

taken or received and held by him as abandoned property in such insurrectionary dis- 
trict, and claimed to be the x)roperty of w. 

and turned over to me by said , 

which property I have received as agent of the Treasury Department, appointed in 
pursuance of certain acts of Congress, approved July 1:5, 18(il, May 2U, 1862, and 
March 1'2, iy(i3. The said property to be transported and disposed of under the regu- 
lations of the Secretary of the Treasury, prescribed iu pursuance of the authority con- 
ferred on him by siiid acts. 



84 ABANDONED AND CAPTURKD PROPERTY. 

Throe coi)ies of said rec(Mi)tsliall be made, one of which shall be trans- 
mitted to tlie Secretary of tlie Treasury, one to the supervising special 
agent, and one shall be retained by the agent giving the receipt ; and a 
record of the property so" collected and received shall be made and 
copies transmitted, and the property disposed of as directed in regula- 
tion V. 

CAPTURED PROPERTY" IN IIANDt< OF OFFK.^ERS OR OTHERS TO BE. 
TURNED OVER AND RECEIPT CrlVEN. 

YIII. Supervising and assistant special agents will collect and receive 
of any otHcer or private, or person emi)loyed in or with the regular or vol- 
unteer forces of the United States, any property held by him which 
shall have been cai)tured in any district declared to be in insurrection 
against the United States, excei)t such as shall be required for military 
use of the United States forces ; and all property so held by them shall 
be received by the agent as captured ]>roi)erty, leaving all questions 
concerning the class to which it belongs for after consideration ; and 
they shall also receive with such property the necessary invoices thereof, 
aiul all receii)ts, bills of lading, and other pai)ers, do('umeuts, and 
vouchers showing title to such i)roperty or the right to the })ossession, 
control, or direction thereof, and such order, indorsement, or writing as 
the party has power to make, to enable such agent to take possession 
of such i)roi)erty or the proceeds thereof. 

And he will gi^e to the otlicer, i)rivate, or person from whom any 
property is so received, a receipt in the form following: 

Received of 

estimated at $ 

captiued by the forces of tlie United States, and claimed to be the ]iro2)evty of 



wbicli property I have received as special agent of the Treasury Department, appointed 
in pursuance of certain acts of Congress, approved July Pi, 1861, May 20, lrifr2, .and 
March 12, IHG!}. The said property to be transported and dis()osed of under the regu- 
lations of the Secretary of the Treasury, prescribed in pursuance of the authority con- 
ferred on him by said acts. 

And a record of the property so collected and received shall bt> 
made and copies transmitted, and the property disposed of as directed 
in regulation V. 

PROPERTY REQUIRED FOR PUBLIC USE TO BE APPRAISED AND DE- 
LIVERED OVER. 

IX. AVhen any part of the goods or ]>roperty received or collected by 
any supervising or assistant special agent is demanded for public use, 
and a requisition therefor is presented, signed by the general comnmnd- 
ing department, or by some other ollicer authorized by such commander 
of department, the special agent having such property in charge shall 
select thr(!e competent anJ disinterested persons, to be ai)proved by 
such otlicer, ^vllo shall miuvc oath for the faithful discharge of their 
duties, and who shall appraise said goods or property, and make a cer- 
titicate thereof in the following form: 

The undersigned having been appointed by , supervising or 

assistant special agent, to appraise certain i)roperty alleged to have been collected or 

received as abandoned or captured by - , supervising 

special agent or assistant special agent of the Treasury Departnu'ut, having each of us 



ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 85 

made oath for the faithful discharj^e of our <lnty as such appraisers, do certify that we 
have carefully examined aud appraised the following described property, to wit : 

4»nd that said property is worth 

r . 

- . . > Apijraisers. 

Wbicli certificate sliall l)e certified by the special agent and by the 
ofiicer receiving said i)roi)eity ; and the goods or property so appraised 
shall be delivered over to the officer appointed to receive it; and the 
special agent shall in all snch cases require from the officer or agent re- 
ceiving said goods or proi)erty a receipt in the following form : 

Received of 

alleged to have 

been collected or received h\ him as abandoned or captnred, and which has been this 
day appraised by ' 

appraisers appointed with my appi'oval, to be worth dollars, which 

property has been delivered to me by said agent, to be appropriated to the pul)lic use. 
as provided in the second section of the act of Congress, approved ^larch 12, 18613, en- 
titled " An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property, and the prevention 
of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the United States." 

And he shall keep a record of all expenses incurred on account of said 
property : and if he be an assistant special agent, he shall promptly 
transmit a full report of such appraisal proceeclings and copies of all 
papers in the case, as prescribed aud directed in regulation V. 

DISPOSITION or PEEISIIAP.LE PROPERTY AND SUCH AS CANNOT BE 

TRANSPORTED. 

X. In all cases where property of a jierishable nature, whether cap- 
tured or abandoned, shall be collected or received by the proper agents 
of this Department, and its immediate sale is required by the interest 
of all concerned, such agent shall, where practicable, forward it without 
delay to the nearest place designated by the Secretary or by regulation 
as a j)lace of sale withiu a loyal State, consigned to the proper officer of 
this Department, who shall forthwith cause it to be sold at auction to 
the highest bidder; all such shipments to be accompanied by a state- 
ment as required by regulation V. 

If, from the character of the property, it should be impracticable so to 
transport it, the agent shall cause the same to be appraised by three 
disinterested persons, and to be sold at public auction, and promptly 
transmit a full report, as prescribed by regulation V, together with the 
certificate of api>raisal, taken in triplicate, aud the account of sales, and 
hold the proceeds subject to the direction of the supervising special 
agent for that agency. 

HOUSE FURNITURE AND FAMIUY EFFECTS. 

XI. In case of furuiture, fiimily ])ictures, equipage, clothing, or house- 
hold effects, abandoned or captured, and collected or received b^' special 
agents, they will cause the i)rescribed record thereof to be made and 
transmitted, and will store such property on the premises where found, 
whenever it can be done with safety ; otherwise they will cause it to be 
.securely stored and proi)erly marked and numbered, and rei)ort the 
facts to the supervising special agent, and await further directions. If 

eft on the premises they will take a receipt therefor from the agent or 



86 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 

person in possession, and transmit the same with the record. When 
snch projterty cannot be safely left on the premises or stored with' 
safety and dne re^uard to economy, the special agent in charge shall 
canse tlie same to be appraised, disjiosed of, and reported, as provided 
in regnlation X, as to nntransportable property. In case such property 
is in use at hospitals, or ft)r any military purpose, they will canse such 
property to be appraised and treated as luoperty required for pub- 
lic use, as directed in regulation IX. 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS MAY CONTRACT FOR COLLECTING AND 
DELIVERY OF PROPERTY BY OTHER PARTIES. 

XII. When property is liable to be lost or destroyed in consequence 
of its location being- unknown to the special agents, or from other 
causes, and i)arties proi)ose, for compensation, to collect and deliver it 
into the hands of such agents at points designated by them, supervising 
special agents may contract, on l)ehalf of the United States, for the col- 
lection and delivery to them of such property in their respective agen- 
cies, on the best i)ossible terms, not exceeding tweuty-tlve ])er cent, of 
the i)roceeds of the property, which percentage must be full compensa- 
tion for all exi)enses, of wliatever character, incurred in collecting, pre- 
paring, and delivering such property at the points designated. Prior 
to any snch contract binng made the party proposing must submit in 
writing a statement of the kind and amount of property proposed to be 
collected, the locality whence to be obtained, and all the facts and cir- 
cumstances connected with it, particularly as to its ownership. And 
any contract made in pursuance of this regulation must be in writing, 
and restricted to the collection and delivery of particular lots at named 
localities, or, when circumstances clearly justify it, to the general collec- 
tion and delivery of all abandoned property in limited districts not 
greater in any case than oiu; i)arish or county, and not more than one 
district to be assigned to one contractor. 

BOND TO BE GIVEN BY CONTRACTOR INDEMNIFYING THE GOVERN- 
MENT. 

Before jcsynu'iit to an\- contractor under any contract made in luirsu- 
anceof this regnlation, he shall execute a bond, with penalty ecpial to 
the aiiiount stipulated to bo paid to him, and with sureties satisfactory 
to the supervising special agent, indemnifying the United States 
against all claims to the property delivered on account of damages by 
trespass, or otherwise occasioned by the act or connivance of the con- 
tractor, and against jUI claims that may arise on account of expenses 
incuired in the collection, preparation, ami transportation of said prop- 
erty to the points designated in said contract. 

WHEN LARGER PERCENTAGI*: SEEMS TO BE PROPER, AGENT TO REFER 
THE CASE TO THE SECRETARY. 

Should a case arise in the ojunion of the sui)ervising special agent 
Justifying the itayment of a larger percentage than one-quarter of the 
proceeds of the i>ro[)erty, he will make a statement of the facts and cir- 
cumstances and the reaSDUs in his o])inion justifying such additional 
a'lowance, and refer the same to the Secretai'V for instructions. 



ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 87 

LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS AND AGENCY AIDS TO BE APPOINTED. 

And for the purpose of getting; posses;sioii of and transportinp: to mar- 
ket as nuu'li of the captured and abandoned ])roperty as possible withiu 
the lines of the military forces of the United States, supervising- special 
agents, or assistant special agents under their direction, will ap])oint 
and employ in their respective agencies, at such per diem compensation 
as may be judged proper, subject to approval of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, such local special agents and agency aids as may be uecessary 
therefor, instructing them fully as to the execution of the duties re- 
spectively assigned to them. 

AGENTS NOT TO RELEASE PROPERTY, OR PERMIT ITS REMOVAL, OR 
GRANT PERSONAL FAVORS, OR INCUR LIABILITIES NOT AUTHOR- 
IZED BY REGULATIONS. 

Xlir. Xo property collected or received as captured or abandoned 
under the act of March 12, 18()3, shall be released by any agent, except 
by special authority from the Secretary of the Treasury, to any ])ersous 
claiming ownersliij) of such property ; nor shall any i)ermit be given by 
such agents to imlividuals to remove such property ; uor shall any 
liability be incurred or assumed, or contract be made, on the part of 
the United States by such agents, except as authorized by these regu- 
lations. I^o personal favor shall in any case be extended to one indi- 
vidual or party rather than another. 

NECESSARY" EXPENSES TO BE PAID. 

XIV. Supervising special agents will pay, or cause to he paid, out of 
the general faud arising from the sale of all property collected and re- 
ceived in their respective agencies, all expenses necessarily incurred in 
collecting-, receiving, securing, and disposing of the same, including 
fees, taxes, freights, storage, charges, labor, and other necessary ex- 
j^enses, being careful to avoid all useless or indiscreet expenditures; and 
will charge each particular lot or parcel with the specilic or propor- 
tionate amount of all such expenses as can be made s])ecitio or propor- 
tionate charges to each lot or parcel; and will also charge and retain 
out of the proceeds of each lot or parcel one and one half per centum 
thereof for the payment of such expenses connected with the collection, 
transportation, and sale, or other disposition thereof, as cannot be nuide 
specific or proportionate charges against each lot or parcel, or are uot 
otherwise provided for, such as rents, compensation to clerks or other em- 
ployes, auctioneers, printing, and advertising, a carefully stated account 
of which will be kept by such agents, showing in detail all expenses 
paid out'of this fund arising from such charge; and, unless unavoidably 
prevented, they will take vouchers for all expenditures made under this 
regulation, and transmit the san)e with their accounts. Of the balance, 
if any, of said one and one-half per cent, remaining after defi'aying said 
expenses the several supervising- special agents may retain, as compen- 
sation for extra care and responsibility, a sum not exceeding one-half of 
one per cent., and with the remainder, if any, may reward extra services 
in collection and care of property rendered b}' agents and others. 

PROPERTY TO BE TRANSPORTED TO LOYAL STATES AND SOLD AT 

AUCTION. 

XV. All i)roperty collected and received, other than such as is de- 
scribed in regulations X and XT, and such as may be appropriated to 



88 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 

])ublic use, shall be transported to such places iu the loyal States as shall 
be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, as places of sale, con- 
sifjned to the supervising special agent of the agency iu which it is col- 
lected or received, or to such other person as shall be specially author- 
ized by the Secretary to receive the same, and shall there be sold by 
such supervising special agent, or other person, at public auction, to 
the highest bidder, for United States notes, pursuant to notice previ- 
ously published of the time and place of sale. 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL, AGENTS TO MAKE REPORT. 

XYI. Each supervising special agent or other i)erson, as aforesaid, 
shall make a full record of each lot or parcel of property coming to his 
possession, in the manner prescribed by regulation Y, and report the 
same, and all sales or other disposition thereof, made by him, rendering 
a monthly accountc-urrent of all his transactions to the Secretary, ac- 
companying the same with receipts or other vouchers for all moneys 
paid out by him. All balances remaining in his hands shall be deposited 
in the Treasury from time to time, as directed by the Secretary. 



War Department, 

September 11, 1863. 
The attention of all officers and soldiers of the Army of the United 
States, whether volunteer or regular, is specially directed to the Re- 
vised Regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, approved by the 
President, dated September 11, 18G3, and superseding the regulations 
of March 31, 18G3; and they will in all respects observe General Order 
of this Department numbered eighty-eight, and dated March 31, 1863, 
in regard to said Revised Regulations, as if the same had been origin- 
ally framed and promulgated with reference to them. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 



Navy Department, 

September 11, 1863. 
The attention of all oilicers, sailors, and marines of the Navy of the 
United States is especially directed 1o the Revised Regulations of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, approved by the President, dated Septemba* 
11, 1863," and superseding the regulations of March 31, 1863; and they 
Mill in all respects observe the order of this Department dated March 31, 
1863, with regard to said Revised Regulations, as if the same had been 
originallv promulgated with reference to them. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary of the iSV/ry. 



additional regulations concerning commercial intercourse 
with and in states declared jn insurrection, january 26, 1864. 

executive order. 

Executive Mansion, 

Washington, January 26, 1864. 

I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, having seen and 
considered the additional regulations of trade prescribed by the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury, and numbered LI, LIT, Llll, LIY, LV, and LVI, 



TRADE KEGULATIONS. 89 

do hereby approve the same ; aud I further declare and order that all 
property brought iu for saleiu good faith, aud actually soldiu pursuauce 
of said regulatious LIT, LIII, LIV, LV, aud LVI, after the same shall 
have takeu effect aud couie iu force as provided iu regulatiou LVI, 
shall be exempt from couliscatiou or forfeiture to the Uuited States. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN^. 



additioxal regulations of trade. 

Tkeasitry Department, 

January 23, 1864. 

LI. The couimaudiug general having expressed the opinion, in reply 
to a letter addressed to him by the tSecretary of the Treasury on the 
ICth instant, that restrictions on trade iu the States of Missouri and 
Kentucky may now be safely reuioved, aud the Secretary of War, iu his 
letter of this day, January 23, 1SG4, having approved that opinion, the 
twenty-sixth regulatiou of trade established, with other regulatious, on 
the 11th of September, 1SG3, is so far modified that all restrictions on trade 
in the States of Missouri and Keutucky are au nulled and abrogated; 
and all |)roducts aud goods may be freely takeu into aud transported 
withiu the said States as in time of peace: Provided, however, That no 
products or goods shall be taken from said States, or either of them, 
iuto any State declared to be in insurrection, or to any port in said 
State heretofore blockaded which has been or nuiy be opened, except in 
compliance with the regulatious of Septeuiber 11, 1SG3. 

Restrictions upon trade iu, to, or from other States, aud also upon the 
trade with States in insurrection and parts of said States, especially on 
the Mississippi ami other navigable rivers, will be removed whenever, 
iu the opinion of the President, such removal shall be found compatible 
with the military measures necessary for the suppression of the rebel- 
lion. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



ADDITIONAL RE(i UL ATIONS OF TRADE, 

To tale effect when promulgated under authority of the President by (jenerah 
commanding departments. 

Treasury Department, 

January 26, 1864. 

IjH. All persons being or residiug in any of the States declared to 
be in insurrection, whether within or beyond tlie lines of national mili- 
tary occupatiou, may freely bring any goods or products from withiu 
the State in which he may reside to auy place within such Hues where 
there is a supervising special agent or assistant special agent of the 
Treasury Department, for sale or other disposition ; and so much of auy 
regulatiou heretofore established as requires the obtaining of any 
l)revious authority or iiermit for bringing goods aud products to the 
place of sale is hereby rescinded. 

LIII. In all cases where the owner of the goods and products so 
brought in for sale shall reside withiu the Hues of national military oc- 



90 TRADE RKGULATIONS. 

(tupatioi), and shall talce (lie oath prescribed by the proclamation of the 
President, dated December 8, ISii'i, and is not excepted from the 
amnesty granted by the said proclamation, or provetl b}' affidavits to 
the satisfaction of the supervising special agent or assistant special 
agent to be disloyal and hostile to the United States, such owner or his 
agent may receive the price of his goods and products without deduc- 
tion, except for dues and fees to the Government under the regulations 
of September 11, 1SG3, or he may convey such goods and ])roducts, having 
paid said dues and fees, under proper permit, to such other i)lace as he 
may choose for sale or other disposition ; but whenever the owner of said 
goods and products shall not reside within the lines of national military 
occupation, such goods and products shall })e sold by the supervising 
special agent, or assistant special agent; and all such sales of such 
goods and ])roducts shall take place on 3ronday of each week, at the 
place of receijjt, and shall include all com})lete lots on hand at the time 
of sale. And the sui)ervising»special agent or the assistant special 
agent, as the case may be, shall pay to said owner or his agent, if said 
owner shall have taken said oath, and is not excepted from said Amnesty 
nor proved to be disloyal and hostile, twenty-five per cent, of the gross 
proceeds of said sales, and shall pay the remainder of such proceeds, 
alter deducting necessary aiUl proper expenses of sAle and one ])er cent, 
as his additional compensation, into the Treasury of the United States, 
ami shall give to the owner of each lot sold, or his agent, a receipt or 
certificate describing the property. But the aggregate compensation of 
no supervising special agent or assistant special agent shall exceed the 
sum of five thousand dollars per annum, or at that rate for a less period : 
and each supervising special agent and assistant special agent charged 
with the receipt and payment of any money under any regulation of the 
Treasury J)ei)artment, shall give bond to the satisfaction of the Secretary 
of the Treasury in the sum of fifty thousand dollars for the faithful per^ 
formance of his duties as such supervising special agent or assistant 
s])ecial agent, and for the ymnctual payment into the Treasury of the 
ignited States of all sums by him received and required by law or regu- 
] it ions to be so paid. 

LIV. All sales, whether private or public, shall be for notes of the 
I iiited States or Treasury notes, exclusively, and all proceeds of goods 
aid products ])aid into the Treasury under the foregoing reguhition 
shall be restored without interest to the owner of the goods and prod- 
ucts sold, in case he shall establish, on the return of peace and the full 
l)ractical restoration of the authority of the Union, his title to said goods 
and ])n)ducts, and that since the sale thereof he has conducted himself 
in all li'spects as a good and loyal citizen of the United States, and has 
done ncthing inconsistent with the terms of the oath prescribed by the 
President's proclamation of amnesty. 

LV. Nothing in either of the foregoing additional regulations shall 
authorize the conveyance of supplies beyond the lines of national mili- 
tary occupation, or, except under the regulatiojis of September 11, 1803, 
within said lines. 

LVJ. The foregoing regulations, numbered LTI, LTII, LIV, LV, shall 
take effect and be in foi'ce within the lines of the several military de- 
]iartments in the insurrectionary States, whenever the generals com- 
manding said departments shall, respectively, under authority from the 
I'resident, and bv inoper orders, promulgate the same. 

S. r. OUASE, 
Scorfar)/ oftlic Trca.sur}/. 



trade regulations. 91 

executive order. 

Executive Mansion, 

Washington, February 2, 1804:. 
I, Abrahai)! Lincoln, President of the United States, havin^- seen and 
considered the additional regulation of trade prescribed b}' the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury, and unmbered LVII, do hereby approve the 
same. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 



additional regulation of trade. 

Treasury 1)epart?,ient, 

Febriuinj 2, 1804. 
LVII. The Secretary of War having transmitted to this Department 
a letter of the commanding general, expressing the opinion, in reply to 
a letter addressed to him by the Secretary of the Treasury on the IGth 
idtimo, that restrictions on trade in the State of West A^irginia, within 
the national military lines, may now be safely removed, the twenty- 
sixth regulation of trade established, with other regulations, on the 11th 
of September, 1803, is so lar modified that all restrictions on trade in 
the State of West Virginia within said lines are annulled and abrogated; 
and all products and goods may be freely taken into and transported 
Avithin the above-mentioned portion of said State as in time of peace : 
Provided, liou-crer, That no prodncts or goods shall be taken from said 
State into any State declared to be in insurrection, or to any port in 
any such State heretofore blockaded, which has been or may be opened, 
except in compliance with the regulations of September 11, 1803. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Sccretarij of the Treasury. 



Treasury Department, 

March 21, 1801. 
Sir: The forty-second trade regulation, series of September 11, 1803, 
is hereby so far moditied, that on and after the 1st day of April next 
the invoice valuation permittee on shipments to and from insurrection- 
ary districts will be three per cent, instead of live, as therein prescribed. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Trea^mry. 
H. A. RiSLEY, Esq., 

Supervising Special Agent, Washington, I). C. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 

CONCERNING COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH AND IN STATES AND 
PARTS OF STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, THE COLLECTION, RE- 
CEIPT, AND DISPOSITION OF CAPTURED, ABANDONED, AND CONFISCABLE 
PROPERTY, AND THE EMPLOYMENT AND GENERAL WELFARE OF FREED- 
MEN. PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, AVITH THE 
APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, IN PURSUANCE OF THE SEVERAL ACTS 
OF CONGRESS IN RELATION TO THOSE SUBJECTS. 



Executive Mansion, 

Washinfjton, July 30, 186-4. 
The following regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, having 
been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved, and commercial 
intercourse, in the cases and under the restrictions described and ex- 
pressed in the regulations, is licensed and authorized; and all officers 
and privates of the regular and volunteer forces of the United States, 
and officers, sailors, and marines in the naval service, will observe the 
said regulations and the provisions of the several acts of Congress ap- 
pended thereto, to which they relate, and will render all assistance 
not incompatible with military or naval operations, to officers and 
agents of the Treasury Dei)artinent executing the same. 

ABKAHAIM LINCOLN. 



GENERAL llEGULATIONS. 

These regulations, and the vSeveral acts of Congress authorizing them, 
shall be executed and carried into effect, under direction of the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, by the following officers : 

A general agent, 

Sui)ervising special agents. 

Assistant special agents. 

Local special agents. 

Agency aids. 

Officers of the customs designated by the Secretary, and 

Superintendents of freedmen. 
All officers appointed under these regulations are authorized to ad- 
minister oaths required in the performance of their official duties. 

The general agent and the supervising and assistant special agents 
will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury ; local special agents 
and agency aids will be ai)pointed by the supervising special agents or 
assistant special agents, as under regulation XXVJl, subject to the ap- 
proval of the Secretary. 

It shall be the duty of the general agent, umler the direction of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, to cnuse these rules and regulations to be 
properly and uniformly enforced in all States and parts of States de- 
clared in insurrection, and all officers and agents appointed to perform 
duties under them will comply with the instructions of the general 
agent in regard thereto until otherwise directed by the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 



GENERAL REGULATIONS. 93 

To facilitate llie executiou of the annexed regulations, insnrrection- 
ary States and parts of States are hereby divided into districts called 
special agencies, distinguished numerically, and described as follows: 

The first special agency comprises that part of the valley of the Mis- 
sissippi lying west of the Alleghany Mountains and east of the mouth 
of the Tennessee River, and extending southwardly to include so much 
of the States of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia as is, 
or shall be, occupied by national forces operating from the north. 

The second special agency comprises so much of the Mississippi Val- 
ley as lies west of the mouth of the Tennessee liiver, including West 
Tennessee, the State of Arkansas, and so much of the States of Missis- 
sippi and Louisiana as is, or shall be, occupied by national forces oper- 
ating from the north. 

The third special agency comprises so much of the States of Louisi- 
ana, Mississii)pi, Alabama, and the west part of Florida as is, or shall 
be, occupied by national forces operating from the south. 

The fourth special agency comprises the State of Texas. 

The fifth special agency comprises the south and east part of Florida, 
including Key West, the State of South Carolina, and so much of the 
State of Georgia as is, or shall be, occupied by national forces operating 
from the south. 

The sixth special agency comprises the State of Xorth Carolina, ex- 
cepting so much thereof as lies north of Albemarle Sound and east of 
Chowan Eiver. 

The seventh special agency comprises that section of country lying- 
east of the Alleghanj' Mountains, and extending southwardly to include 
so much of the State of North Carolina as lies north of Albemarle Sound 
and east of Chowan Eiver. 

Additional special agencies, if established, will be numerically desig- 
nated in the order of their establishment ; and if the boundaries of 
agencies already established shall be changed, due notice thereof will 
be given. 

Supervising special agents will supervise within their respective agen- 
cies the execution of the regulations, under the direction of the general 
agent, and will make, and from time to time change, such local rules not 
inconsistent with them as may be proper for that purpose, and tempora- 
rily suspend or qualify the authority to grant permits for supplies, as 
the public interest shall require, subject to the approval of the general 
agent or of the Secretar}^ of the Treasury; and they will confer -with 
generals commanding departments, or, when such conference is imprac- 
ticable, with generals commanding divisions or districts, and with naval 
oflicers commanding within the agency under their supervision, and ob- 
tain, as far as practicable, their sanction to such action as may affect 
military or naval movements. 

The assistant and local special agents, agency aids, and oflicers of the 
customs above referred to will communicate directly with the supervis- 
ing special agent of the agency to which they may be assigned upon all 
questions affecting the discharge of their duties under the regulations. 
The several supervising special agejits will reply to these communica- 
tions, except where they regard the intervention of the Department ne- 
cessary, when they will transmit them, and all papers relating to them, 
with such recommendations as they may think proper, to the Secretary 
of the Treasury, and will keep the Department advised of their action in 
all matters pertaining to the execution of thieir duties. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 

Secretary of the Treasnnj. 

Washington, Juhj 29, 1864. 



1)4 COMMERCIAL IXTEKCOUKSE. 

COMMEKCIAI* INTERCOURSE. 

liuh'S (Old rcguJations under the several actn of Congress prohibitirifj or re- 
strictinfi commcrcitd intercourse iv'Uh and in States and parts of States 
declared to be in insurrection, and in portions of loiial i^tates in dangerous 
proximity thereto. 

I. Xo goods, ware.s, or iiieicliaiHlise will be allowed to be transported 
to, from, or within any State or jiart ot a State under restriction, or de- 
clared in insurrection, except under permits, certificates, and clearances, 
as hereinafter provided. 

TERMIT OFFICERS. 

II. Tile officers of the Treasury Department to be authorized under 
instructions from the Secretary to permit sui)plies to be transported to 
loyal persons residing in in.snrrectionary States or parts of States, or in 
restricted districts of loyal States with which commercial intercourse 
has been or may be licensed by the President, under regulations of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, or the surveyors of customs at Pittsburgh, 
AYheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, Xew Albany, Evansville, Pa- 
ducah, Cairo, Quincy, Saint Louis, Xashville, Memphis, and Baltimore; 
the collectors of customs at Boston, Xew York, Philadelphia, George- 
town, Alexandria, Beaufort in Noitli Carolina, Port Jioyal in South 
Carolina, Brownsville, and New Orleans. Other ofiicers will be desig- 
nated to grant permits should the i)ublic interests require it; and the 
otiicers above named will respectively grant ])ermitsto such ports, places, 
or disiricts only as shall be designated in the letter of instructions from 
the Secretary of the Treasury. 

INTERCOURSE BEYOND MILITARY LINES rROHIBITED. 

IIL Commercial intercourse with localities beyond the lines of actual 
military occupation by the United States forces is absolutely prohibited ; 
and no ])ermit will be granted for the transportation of any i)roperty to 
any place under the control of insurgents against the United States. 

LINES OF :MILITARY OCCUPATION. 

IV. Hach supervising special agent will ascertain Ironi the published 
order of the general commanding the department or district embracing 
his agency, tlie lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the 
United States, and will confer with the department commander, and 
agree with him in Avriting, as to the i>lace or places, within those lines 
in his agency, to which sujjplies may be taken for the loyal residents 
therein, and the aggregate amount wliich may betaken monthly to each 
of such places. Having so ascertained and agreed, he will promptly 
communicate the facts to tlie Secretary of the Treasury, and to the offi- 
cers authorized to grant permits to the district so occupied. 

SCrPLY-STORES. 

A\ Supply-stores at places agreed upon by the commanding general 
of the department and the proper supervising s[)ecial agent uuiy be es- 
tablished by such loyal persons as the supervising si)ecial agent or as- 



COMMERCIAL IXl ERCO'URSZ. 15 

...>t;iut .special agents sliall designate for tbat purpose. But the monthly 
amount agreed upon, as aforesaid, shall in no case be exceeded, and the 
maximum amount that any individual or tirm may be permitted to take 
there ior sale shall not exceed $3,000 per month, except in cities with a 
papulation over twenty thousand, and except in cases where the com- 
manding general of the district, for military reasons, requests it to be 
larger, in which cases .all persons trading there shall be equally affected 
thereby, aiid no person shall be interested in more than one store. 

APPLICATION FOR SUPPLY-STORES. 

VI, Any person desiring to establish a supply-store at any place above 
provided may make application in writing to the proper supervising or 
assistant special agent, who shall tile the application, and record the 
name of each apjdicant, with the date of application, in a book to be 
kept by him for that purpose ; aud all favoritism in granting the author- 
ities so applied for shall be prevented, as far as })ossible, by local rules 
of the proper supervising special agents. No application made prior to 
military occupation will be considered. 

APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A SUPPLY-STORE. 

,lfi.... 

To , sin'ciiil agent, agency : 

Sir : , the undersigned, make application for ivitbority to establish 

a supply-store at , in county of , and State of , 

nuder the regulations jirescribed .Inly 21), 181)4, by the Secretary of tlie Treasury, con- 
cerning conintercial intercourse with and in Scates declared in insurrection. 
Respect fully, .yours, 



AFFIDAAHT OF APPLICANT FOR Sl'PPLY-STORE. 

Each ai)plicant shall make and tile with his application an aflidavitin 
the following torm : 

1 , of , in the county of , and State 

of , being duly sworu, on oath or atiirmalion say, that I am a citizen of 

the United States, («rt^(r6'-?*o/'/i. or HatiifaUzed, as tlie case laatj be,) mid that I am in all 
respects true aud loyal to the Government thereof; that I always have faithfully con- 
formed, aikl will at all times faithfully conform, to the proclamations aud orders of the 
President of tiie United .States, and the military governors and generals exercising 
jiuthority under him, aud to departnuiutal regulations authorized Ijy law; aud that 1 
have aided, aud will at all times aid, by my conversation and conduct, and by every 
other means I can properly use, in suppressing the rebellion and restoring obedience 
to the Constitution aud laws of the United States. 

Subscribeil aiul sworn before me this day of , 18... 

NO AUTIIORITA" GRANTED WITHOUT AFFIDAVIT. 

VII. 2s'o authority to sell supplies, at any idace in a State or part of 
.State declared in insurrection, shall be given to any person who shall 
not accompany his application with the above affidavit taken before a 
competent officer. 

AUTHORITY FOR SUPPLY-STORE. 

VJII. When authority shall be given to any person to establish a 
supply-store at any place as above provided, it shall be in the following 
form : 

, of the county of , and 

State of , having applie I to me for author. ty to establifsh a Sri'i'i.v- 



96 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

Stork at , in the county of and State of 

, and having made and attacLed to application 

the prescribed affidavit, and executed a bond to the United States in a penalty and 

with sureties approved by nie, I hereby authorize the said '. 

to establisii a Supply-Stokk at , in the county of , 

and State of , and, under proper permits, to transport to and sell 

at said store floods, wares, and merchandise, not prohibited, to au amount not exceed- 
incr dollars ($ ) per month. 

This authority is j^iven subject to revocation at any time by the supervisiu''- special 
apent of tiie aj^eucv. 

Dated at .' , this day of , 18. . . 

IJOND OF APPLICANT FOU SUPPLY-STORE. 

IX. Before tbe delivery of the authority above provided for, the up- 
l)licaut .shall execute aud deliver to the agent a bond to the United 
States, in a penalty of twice the niotithly amount authorized, with sure- 
ties to be approved by such agent, which bond shall be in the following 
form : 

Know ai.i, .mkn ijv tji kse riiK.SKNis, That Ave, , 

of , as principal, aud , 

of , and , of 

as sureties, are held aud iirmly l)oun(l unto the United States of America, iu the sum 

of dollars ($ ) to be paid to the United States of America, 

for whicli })ayuieut, Avell aud truly to be nuide, we bind oiuselves.our heirs, executors, 
iuid administrators, jointly aud severally, firmly by these presents. Scaled witii oui 

seals, and d.ated this day of iu the year one thousand 

eight hundred and 

Whereas the said has applied for and received authority to 

establish a Suvpia'-Stouk at , in the county of , 

aud State of , under the liceuse of the President, and the regula- 
tions prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, July 29, 18fi4 : 

The coNinriox '>v thk above obligation is srcii. That if the said 

shall not transport goods to anyplace other than such Snu'LV-SronK, 

nor engage, directly or indirectly, iu any proiiibited trade ; and if no part of the goods 

transported by shall, with knowledge or assent, or 

by couuivauce, be so used or disposed of as to give aid or encourage- 
ment to the insurgents ; and if no military, naval, or civil officer, or person prohibited 
by law from trading, or receiving, or expecting profit or advantage from trade iu au 
insurrectionary State, .shall bo interested, directly or indirectly, in any .sale made from 
said store; and if no goods, wares, or merchandise are sold or disposed of at said store, 
or other act done by him, or by others acting under his authority, iu violation of any 
regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury, or local rule of the supervising special 
agent, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain iu full force and 
ellcct. 

SigiU'd, sealed, and deliA ered in ]ireseuce of — 

". [tI s!] 

. [,..,.1 

RECORDS OF AUTHORITIES. 

X. Kecords shall be kept in the officeof each supervising and district 
agency, in which every authority granted therein shall be recorded, with 
the locality of the supply-store, the name of the party authorized, aud 
his sureties, with their respective residences, the date and monthly 
amount of the authority, and the date and amount of each shipment of 
goods authorized. And whenever a party authorized to sell, as afore- 
said, shall desire to transport supplies to his store, he shall file with the 
supervising or assistant special agent, in charge of the record of his 
authority, an application for such supplies, with a full memorandum 
theieof. Whereupon such agent may, if he knows no reason Avhy he 
sliouid not, give the a})plicant a certificate in the following form: 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 



97 



CERTIFICATE FOR SUPPLIES. 

This certifies that is duly antliorized to sell supplies io loya 

persons at , and that he may be permitted to ship to tliat place dur- 
ing the mouth of , supplies included in the annexed memorandum to the 

amount of Jfi 

The permit oflicer to whom tliis certificate is presented, if the party holding it desires 
to ship only a part of the amouut named therein, will indorse upon the certificate the 
date and amount of the permit, and will give the holder a certified copy of the original 
certificate with his indorsement thereon, retaining the original as his authority for the 
permit. 

And the officer granting a permit on tlie certified copy Avill, in like manner, indorse 
upon it the date and amouut of his peruiit, and give a certified copy of the certificate 
and indorsements as certified, and so on until tlie amouut of the original certificate is 
exliausted ; so that the stock permitted to and transported by the trader, each month, 
shall not exceed the; amount above named. No permit will be granted upon this cer- 
tificate after tiie close of the month of ,18 

Dated at , this day of , 18 . . . 



Special Agent. 

To MMiicli certificate lie shall annex a copy of the memorandum so filed 
with liim, countersigned with his approval. 

PERMIT FOR SUPPLY-STORE. 

XI. Upon presentation of the above certificate, or the certified copies 
thereof as provided, together with the application, copies, invoices, 
and affidavits, as hereinafter named, any permit officer named in regu- 
lation II may permit the shipment, of supplies included in the memo- 
randum annexed to the certificate, so that the aggregate amount of the 
shipments under the certificate shall not exceed the sum named therein. 
Such permit shall be made subject to the approval of the permit officer 
of the last port of shipment in a loyal State through which the supplies 
shall pass en route to their destination. 

XII. Tlie application for ijermit shall be in the following form : 

APPLICATION FOR PERMIT FOR SUPPLIES. 



To : . 

Sir : desire permission to transport from this port to 

the supplies named in the invoices of which the annexed are true copies, which supplies 

■were purchased by of the parties res^iectively indicated by the 

invoices, and are owned by of , and consigned 

to , of , and are contained in packages, 

which packages are marked and described as follows : 



No. of packages. 


Marks. 


Description of supplies. 


Value: 











7 A C 



98 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

AFFIDAVIT OF APPLICANT FOR PERMIT FOR SUPPLIES. 

XIII. The original invoices shall be presented with the application, 
and shall be compared Avith the co[)ies annexed thereto by the officer 
orantins: the permit to shij). The api)licant shall annex and file, with 
ins application for permit to ship, an affidavit in the following form : 

, of , being duly sworn, deposes and says : 

that is the owner of the goods, wares, and nierchaudise described 

in the invoices, true copies of wliich are hereto attached, and that the quantities, de- 
scriptions, and values of the said goods, wares, and merchandise are correctly stated 
in said invoices; that the marks on the )iackages iire correctly stated in the above 
application ; and that the packages contain nothing except as stated in the invoices. 

And this deponent further swears, that the goods, wares, and merchandise ]ierniitted 
to be transported upon the above application, shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be 
trans]>orte(l or disposed of by hin^ or by his authority, connivance, or assent, in viola- 
tion of the terms of the permit. 

PERMIT FOR SUPPLIES. 

XIY, If the permit officer is satisfied that no fraud has been or is 
being practiced, he may permit the shipment so applied for, in the fol- 
lowing form : 

Port of 

Tins :\IAY CERTIFY that has this day filed in my office 

an apiilicatiou for permit to transport from this port to , to be 

delivered to , at , by way of ,' 

the goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned and descril)ed in the copies of invoices 
thereof lieretB attached, (each one of which is stamped with my official seal,) which 

are contained in packages, and are of the aggregate value of $ 

and are owned by , shipped by , consigned 

to '. 

And the said has presented with his application the 

original invoices of the said goods, wares, and merchandise, and filed in my office 
copies thereof, and made oath before me ])urauant to the regulations of the Secretary of 
the Treasury, and local rules made under them. 

Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority of the President of the United States, 
conferred ou me through the Secretary of the Treasury, I do hereby authorize and 

permit the said to transport, by the route above named, the 

said goods, wares, and merchandise to 

The right is reserved to revoke, suspend, or qualify this permit, at such time and 
place and in such manner as the public interests may require ; and it will expire tea 
days after date, and cease to have any force, except that merchandise properly shipped 
under it, within ten days, will Vte allowed to go to its place of destination. 

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of this office, this 
day of , one thousand eight hundred and sixty 



of Customs. 



To which permit the officer granting the same shall annex copies of 
the invoices presented with the application, except that the extension of 
X)rices need not be made in the copies annexed to the permit to trans- 
port, but the value of each lot shall be stated in the original invoices. 

ACCOUNTS OF SALES OF SUPPLIES. 

XV. All persons authorized to sell su))plies shall keep true accounts 
of all their sales, with the name and residence of each purchaser, and 
the date and amount of each sale; and their books, invoices, and 
accounts shall at all times be open to tlieinsi)ection of the su])ervising 
or assistant special agents. If any person so authorized shall violate 
any regulation or local rule, his authority shall be immediately revoked, 
and his stock in trade sliall be seized and fori'eited to the United States, 
and such steps shall be promptly taken as nniy be necessary to secure 
its condemnation by a court of competent jurisdiction. 



COMMERCIAL INTEECOURSE. 99 

NO SALES EXCEPT BY PERSONS AUTHORIZED. 

XVI. Bo goods, wares, or merchandise shall be sokl at any pbice in 
a State dechired in insurrection, except by i)ersons duly authorized 
and none shall be transported from any place at which supplies are 
authorized to be sold, except under the permit of the local special agent 
appointed for that place. Loyal persons residing in the district of the 
country contiguous to the place, and within the lines of actual occupa- 
tion by the military forces of the United States, as indicated by pub- 
lished order of the commanding general of the department or district 
in which it is situated, may be permitted by the local special agent to 
procure from any such store and take to their homes such individual, 
family, or plantation sui)plies as nia^' be necessary for their own use, as 
provided in regulation XVIII. 

FAMILY SUPPLIES. 

XVII. The permit above provided for shall be given by the local 
special agent, upon api)lication of the head of the family, or some per- 
son duly authorized by him or her in writing, and then only on an affi- 
davit in the following form : 

AFFIDAVIT OF APPLICANT. 



State of 

County of 

I, , being fluly sworn, depose and say that 

reside at , in tlie county of , and State 

of , and tliat has resided there for years last past ; 

that I am in all respects true and loyal to the Government of the United States, and 
that I will in all things so deport myself, bearing true faith and allegiance thereto, and 
to the best of my ability protecting and defending the same. Tliat family con- 
sists of white and colored persons ; that the supplies, invoices of which 

are hereto attached, are necessary for the use and consumption of said family during 
the ensuing month ; that no part thereof shall be sokl or otherwise disposed of by .... 

or by authority, connivance, or consent, except for the sole use and consumption 

of said family, and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, no application has 
been uuide for any permit for the same or like supplies to any other officer or agent, 
and that no supplies for the same family for the period mentioned have been or are ex- 
pected to be applied for elsewhere, or otherwise obtained. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of 186 .... 

PERMIT FOR FAMILY AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES. 

XVIII. If the local special agent is satisfied as to the truth of the 
affidavit and the good faith of the a[)plicant, he shall permit the pur- 
chase and transportation applied for, subject to the approval of the 
commander of the post, or such person as he shall designate for that 
purpose, to be countersigned upon the permit, Avhich permit shall be in 
the following form : 

This may certify that has this day filed in my office an 

application and the required affidavit for the purchase of the sup- 

jdies described in the annexed memorandum countersigned by me, the aggregate value 

whei'eof is $ , and for transportation thereof by way of 

to the place of residence of 

And by virtue of the authority vested in me, I do hereby permit the said 

to imrchase the said supplies at , and to trans^jort them from 

to 

This permit will expire and cease to have any force ten days after its date. 



Local Special Agent. 

Special Agency. 

Dated at , this day of , 18.. 



100 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

CERTIFICATE TO TURCIIASE ELSEWnERE. 

XIX. If the applicant prefers to purchase the supplies at some place 
ill a loyal State, then, instead of the above permit, he shall give him a 
certificate in the following form : 

I certify tliat has made tho jirescribcd aftidavit and ajiplication 

before me for the supplies, a memoraiidnm whereof is hereto attached, and connter- 

si_u;n(!d \>y me, the estimated A'ahie whisreof is $ , which he desires to take to his 

home in the; county of , State of. 

1 liercliy leconimeiid any authorized permit otiicer to permit the transportation of 

said siipplies, to an amount not exceedinj^ $ , from the port where it is ai)plied 

for to his home aforesaid, upon presentation of this certificate, conntersij^ned with the 
approval of the general commanding this post, or some iKjrson authorized by him. 

This certihcate will cease to have any force thirty days after date. 

Dated at , this day of , 186.. 



Locixl Special A</ent. 
PERMIT FOR TRANSPORTATION. 

XX. Upon presentation of this certificate so countersigned, with da- 
plicate invoices of the supplies to be transported, any authorized per- 
mit officer may graut the permit desired, in the followiug form : 

In compliance with the recommendation of , local special agent at 

, approved by the proper nulitary officer, permission is hereby granted to 

, residing at , in the county of , and 

State of , to take from this port to his home aforesaid the supplits 

mentioned in the invoices hereto attached and countersigned by me. 

Dated at , this day of ,186.". 

CERTIFICATE TO BE FILED. 

XXI. The certificate upou which jiermits are granted, attached to 
copies of the invoices permitted, shall be filed by the officer granting 
the permit. 

EXCEPTED ARTICLES. 

XXII. Fresh vegetables, fruits, butter and eggs, ice, poultry, coal, 
wood, beef-cattle, hogs, and household goods of families moving, may 
be permitted by the officers named in regulation II to go to any mili- 
tary i)ost, naval fleet, or vessel of the United States forces, other than 
within or attached to the blockade, without the supply-store authority 
and certificate above required. But in such cases the permit shall be 
conditioned that the supplies so permitted shall be reported to the assist- 
ant or local si)ecial agent at such post, fleet, or vessel, if there be such 
an oflicer there, and if not, then to the commanding officer of the post, 
fleet, or vessel, and that the same shall be disposed of only in compli- 
ance ^Yith these regulations. 

sutlers' PERMITS. 

XXIII. Permits will be granted to sutlers to transport to the regi- 
ments or post sntlered by them such articles as they are authorized to 
sell, free of the three per cent, fee; but no permit will be granted to a 
sutler except on presentation to the ])roper permit officer, of Mie original 
certificat<' of his appointment from the commiintling officer of his regi- 
ment or i)ost, countersigned by the division commander thereof, and aii 
application and afiidavit in the following form: 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 101 

AFFIDAVIT OF SUTLER. 

, being duly swoi'n, deposes aud says, that 

is the sutler of the , duly appointed aud counnissioued iu writing, a 

true copj' of which appointment is hereto annexed ; that there is no otlier person 

claiming to act as sutler to said , to the knowledge of this affiant ; 

that no other goods, wares, or merchandise have been transported to said 

under this commission except such as have been duly permitted, and that a memoran- 
dum of each sliiiiment permitted is indorsed on said commission, and truly appears on 
the copy thereof hereto attached; that no goods, wares, or merchandise transported 
under such permits have been sold to any persons except the officers or soldiers belong- 
ing to said or other forces of the United States, and that none of 

those permitted under this apjilication shall be so sold. 
Subscribed and sworn to before nie, ? 
this day of , IH6.. 3 

AMOUNT PERMITTED TO SUTLERS. 

XXIV. Transportation under the above regulation shall not be per- 
mitted to any regimental sutler for an amount of goods exceeding 
$2,500 per month ; nor for over two months' supply at one time ; nor 
for any goods except such as he is by law and WarDei^artment orders 
allowed to deal in ; nor to any post sutler to an amount larger than 
shall be stated in his commission and api)roved by the general com- 
manding the department or division, and in such cases only one mouth's 
supply shall be permitted at one time. 

RESTRICTIONS ON CARRIERS. 

XXV. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle, used for transportation from 
any place in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise 
into any place, section, or State not declared in insurrection, but with 
which commercial intercourse has been or may be restricted, without 
the permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury Department, 
application for which permit may be made to such authorized officer 
near tlie point of destination, as may suit the convenience of the sliip- 
l>er. Xor shall any vessel, boat, or other craft or vehicle used for trans- 
portation put off any goods, wares, or merchandise at any place other 
than that named iu the permit or clearance as the place of destination 
of such goods, wares, and merchandise. 

BOATS ON WESTERN WATERS. 

XXVI. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western 
waters south of Cairo, or other waters within or adjacent to any State 
or section, commercial intercourse with which now is, or may hereafter 
be, restricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any port where there is a 
collector or surveyor of customs, there shall be exhibited to the collector 
or surveyor, or such other officer as nuiy be autliorized to act in his 
stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo, and a clearance obtained to 
j)roceed on its voyage ; and when freights are received on board at a 
place where there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter i)rovided in 
regulation XXVII, then the same exhibit shall be made and clearance 
obtained at tlie first port to be passed where there is such an ofticer, if 
required by him, and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the man- 
ifest of its cargo exhibited to the collector or surveyor of every port to 
be passed on the trip, where there is such an officer, if required by him ; 
but no new clearance shall be necessarj^ unless additional freights shall 
have been taken on board after the last clearance. Immediately on. 



102 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

arriving at the port of final destination, anil before discliarging any part 
of the cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such 
port, or other officer authorized to act iu his stead, whose approval for 
landing the cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest before any part 
thereof shall be discharged ; and the clearance and shipping permits of 
all such vessels and boats shall be exhibited to the othcer in command 
of any naval vessel or military post whenever such ofticer may require it. 

AGENCY AIDS. 

XXVII. To facilitate trade ami guard against improper importation, 
agency aids will be appointed by tlie proper supervising special agent, 
or, under his direction, by an assistant special agent, from time to time, 
on cars, vessels, and boats, when desired by owners, agents, or masters 
thereof, which aids will have free carriage on the respective cars, ves- 
sels, and boats on which they are idacedf and will allow proper way- 
freights to be taken on board without permit, keeping a statement 
thereof, and rei)orting the same to the first ofticer to be passed on the 
trip who is authorized to grant the permit desired, from whom a permit 
therefor must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to the shipper 
under his direction. Xo permit will be granted for transportation into 
or within any State or district under restriction or declared in insurrec- 
tion except on cars, vessels, and boats carrying such aids, or by private 
conveyance specified in the permit, or on boats, vessels, or cars bonded 
not to receive anything on board for transportation during the trip nor 
to land or discharge anything at any point, except that of ultimate des- 
tination, Avithout proper permit. 

IVIERCHANDISE LIABLE TO REACH INSURGENTS — BOND REQUIRED. 

XXYIII. When any collector, surveyor, supervising, assistant, or local 
special agent, charged with the execution of these regulations and the 
laws authorizing them, shall find within his proper limits any goods, 
wares, or merchandise which, in his oi)inion, founded on satisfactory 
evidence in writing, are in danger of being transported to insurgents, 
he may require the owner or holder thereof to give reasonable security 
that they shall not be transported to any phuie under insurrectionary 
control, and shall not, in any way, be used to give aid or encouragement 
to the insurgents. 

If the required security be not given, such officer shall promptly state 
the facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such 
goods are situated; or if there be no United States marshal, then to the 
commander of a near military post, whose duty it shall be to take pos- 
session thereof and. hold them for safe-keeping, rej^orting the facts 
promptly to the Secretary of the Treasury, and awaiting instructions. 

ARTICLES PROHIBITED BY MILITARY ORDER. 

XXIX. When any military order, issued by conqietent authority, shall 
absolutely prohibit the transportation of articles designated therein to 
or within any State or part of State named in the order, no permit 
shall bo granted for the transportation so })rohibited. But when such 
prohibition is conditional, transportation amy be permitted in accord- 
ance with the conditions named. 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 103 

PACKAGES TO OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS. 

XXX. Ill cases wli(?re military or naval commanders shall Lave ordered 
all i)ackages sent by friends to the officers and soldiers of their, com- 
mand to be delivered only to designated regimental or vessel officers for 
delivery to the proper parties, such packages may be transported, with- 
out collector's or surveyor's permits, by the Adams Express Company, 
or other carriers having authority for that purpose from the Secretary 
of the Treasury, on such carriers giving bond conditioned to render a 
true account of all such packages by them transported, and to carry no 
goods without i)roper i^ermits, other than such packages. 

ARMY AND NAVY SUPPLIES. 

XXXI. Supplies and other property belonging to the United States 
for the use of the Army or Navy, moving under military or naval orders, 
are excepted from the operation of these regulations. Supplies for the 
Army or Xavy, furnished under contract, will be ])erinitted free of charge, 
upon the certiticate of the proper military or naval officer that such sup- 
plies are required and are to be shipped in fultillment of an actual exist- 
ing contract with the Government. 

COIN OR BULLION. 

XXXII. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section 
heretofore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except 
for military purposes and under military orders, or under the special 
license of the President. 

BLOCKADED POETS. 

XXXIII. Clearances and permits to any port or place affected by the 
existing blockade will be granted only upon the request of the Dei)art- 
ment of War or the Department of the Navy. Applicants must present, 
with their application, a certiticate from the Department of War or De- 
partment of the Xavy, either directly or through a duly authorized officer, 
that the articles are required for military or naval purposes, and a re- 
quest that the transportation of the same may be permitted, together 
with invoices in duplicate of the articles to be permitted, specifying 
their character, quantity, value, and destination. On receiving* such 
certificate and request and duplicate invoices, the Secretary of the Treas- 
ury, or some officer specially authorized by him, will transmit to the 
proper officer one of the invoices, and direct the permitting of the trans- 
portation requested, and forward the other invoice to the assistant or 
local special agent at the port or place to which the goods are to be per- 
mitted, who will, in all cases, on the arrival of any articles claimed to 
have been permitted, examine and compare such articles with the dupli- 
cate invoices; and in case of any excess or evasion of the permit, he 
will seize the whole shipment, and report the facts forthwith to the 
supervising special agent, that proceedings may be taken for their for- 
feiture under the acts of July 13, 18G1, May 20, ISGli, March 12, 18G3, and 
July 2, 1861. 

BLOCKADED PORTS REOPENED. 

XXXIV. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by proc- 
lamation of the President, licenses will be granted by United States con- 
suls, on application by the proper parties, to vessels clearing from for- 



104 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

eigu ports to the ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the 
vessel so licensed will convey no i)erson, property, or information con- 
traband of war, eitber to or from said ports, which license shall be shown 
to tlie collector of the port to which the vessel is bound, and, if required, 
to any ofticer in charge of the blockade. And on leaving any port so 
opened tlie vessel must have a clearance from the collector, according 
to law, showing no violation of the coinlitions of the license. Any vio- 
lation of tlie conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of 
the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from 
entering the United States for any purpose during the war. 

Vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports so oi)ened will 
apply to the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in the usual man- 
ner, for permits and clearances under the regulations heretofore estab- 
lished. 

Commercial intcnxourse between the citizens of ports so oi)ened and 
persons beyond the limits thereof shall be subject to the same restric- 
tions and regulations as at other places in States and parts of States de- 
clared in insurrection. 

REFUSAL OF CLEARANCE. 

XXXV. Collectors and surveyors will refuse clearances and ])ermits 
to all vessels or other vehicles laden with goods, wares, or merchandise 
destined for a foreign or domestic iiort, whenever they shall have satis- 
factory reason to believe that such goods, wares, or merchandise, or any 
part thereof, whatever maybe their ostensible destination, are intended 
for ports or places in possession or under control of insurgents against 
the United States. And if any vessel or other vehicle for whi(;h a clear- 
ance or permit shall have been refused, as aforesaid, shall depart, or 
attempt to depart, for a forefgn or domestic port without being duly 
cleared or permitted, such collector or surveyor, or the supervising special 
agent, or assistant special agent, shall cause such vessel or vehicle to be 
seized and detained, and proceedings to be instituted for the forfeiture 
to the United States of such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, ap- 
jiarel, furniture, and cargo. 

BONDS FOR CLEARANCE. 

XXXVI. Whenever application is made to a collector, or surveyor 
authorized to grant it, for a permit or clearance for either a foreign or 
domestic ixirt. if, for satisfactory reasons, he shall deem it necessary to 
prevent the cargo of the vessel from being used in affording aid and 
comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against the authority of 
the United States, he shall require a bond to be executed by the master 
or owner of the vessel in a penalty equal to the value of the cargo, and 
\vitli sureties to the satisfaction of such collector or surveyor, condi- 
tioned that the said cargo shall be delivered at the destination for which 
it is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof shall be used in 
affording aid or comfort to any jierson or parties in insurrection against 
the authority of the United States with the knowledge or consent or 
connivance of the owner or shipper thereof, or with the knowledge, con- 
sent, or connivance of the master of the vessel on which the same may 
be laden, or of other persons liaving control of the same. 

VESSELS TO REPORT. 

XXXVIIo Every vessel, on approaching a gun boat or revenue-cutter, 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 105 

or vessel appearing to be such, before i)roceedino- furtlier shall bear up 
and speak said boat or cutter, and submit to such examination as may 
be required. 

TRANSPORTATION OF PRODUCTS. 

XXXVIir, All loyal i^ersons residing in a State or part of a State 
declared in insurrection, if within the lines of actual occupation by the 
military forces of the United States, as indicated by the published order 
of the commanding" general of the department or district so occu])ied, 
may be permitted by the supervising si)ecial agent thereof, or such as- 
sistant special agent as he shall designate for that purpose, to bring or 
send to market in the loyal States any products which they shall have 
produced with tlu^ir own labor, or the labor of freedmeu or others em- 
ployed and [laid by them, upon making and filing with such olficer an 
affidavit in the following form : 

AFFIDAVIT OF APPLICANT TO TRANSPORT PRODUCTS. 

Stateof ? ^^.• 
CouDtyof. .. S 

I, , being duly sworn, ntiy that I reside in the county of 

, in the State of ; that I have produced, during the year 186 , 



with my own labor and the labor of freedmeu and others whom I have employed and 
paid, or secured to be paid, according to the rules of the supervising special agent of 

the agency ; that I desire to transport the same to , in the State 

of , by way of , for sale, or other disposition ; 

that the same is now at , in the county of , and State 

of , and is contained in packages, marked ; that 

I am in all respects true and loyal to the Government of the LTnited States, and have 
never committed any act by which mj' property is rendered liable to forfeiture or con- 
fiscation to the United States, under any law tliereof. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this , 186 . 

PERMIT TO TRANSPORT PRODUCTS. 

XXXIX. Upon receiving the above affidavit and being satisfied of its 
truth, such agent shall grant a permit authorizing the transportation of 
the i)roducts named to the first port or place in a loyal State where there 
is a permit officer named in regulation II, and at which the same are to 
be unladed or reshipped, whicli place shall be named in the permit. 
Such permit shall be in the following form : 

, having made application to me for permit to transport 

from , in the county of , 

and State of , to , in the State of , by way of 

, and having made and liled with me the affidavit ])re8cribed for such 

cases, and given bond with approved sureties for the payment of all fees and Govern- 
ment dues upon the said upon its arrival at aforesaid, 

permission is hereliy given to the said to transport the said 

which is contained in packages marked , from 

aforesaid to aforesaid. 

Dated at , this day of ,186 . 

BOND TO TRANSPORT PRODUCTS. 

XL. Before delivering the permit, the agent granting it shall require 
and receive from the applicant his bond to the United States in dupli- 
cate, with two or more sureties, to be approved by him, in a penalty of 
twice the value of the products so permitted to be transported, in the 
following form : 



106 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

Know aij. aikx by these presents, That we, 

of , as priucipals, and 

of , and , of , 

as sureties, arc held and linnly bound unto the United States of America in the sum 

of dollars, ($ ,) to be paid to the United States of America; 

for which payment, Avell and truly to ))e made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, 
and administrators, jointly and severally, tirmly by these presents. Sealed with our 

seals, and dated this day of , in the year one thousand eight 

Lundi'ed antl sixty 

Whereas the said has applied for and received a permit to trans- 
port from , in the county of , 

in the State of , to , in the State of , by way 

of , which is contained iu packages, 

nmrked : 

Now, the condition of the above obligation is such, Tliat if the said 

shall transport the said to 

aforesaid, and there report it to the of custom^ and pay all fees and 

Government dues upon the same, and if, in all things connected therewith, he shall 
comply with the laws and with the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury con- 
cerning the same, then this obligation to be void; otherwise, to remain in full force 
and virtue. 

Iu presence of — 

. [L.S.] 

. [L. 8.] 

. [L.S.] 

DISPOSITION OF BOND. 

XLI. Upon receiving tlie duplicate bond above required, the agent 
shall tbrtlnvith send the original to the officer of the port to whom the 
fees are to be paid, and inform him of any facts relating to the ship- 
ment and transportation which may enable liim more certainly to secure 
the collection of Government fees and dues, and npon arrival of the 
products at his port such offi(;er shall collect the prescribed fees, and 
inform the internal revenue officer, that he maj' collect the tax upon it. 
When these payments are made he shall cancel the bond by w^riting 
across its face " canceled," and shall sign his name thereto, and deliver 
it to the maker or his representative. The agent who received the bond 
shall, upon presentation to him of the bond so canceled, also cancel the 
duplicate in his jjossession in the same manner, but shall retain the same 
so canceled. 

TRANSSHIPMENT OF PRODUCTS. 

XLIl. If, from any cause, it becomes necessary to transship any prod- 
ucts in transitu under permit, as above provided, notice thereof shall 
be given to the permit ofticer of the port or place where it is made, or, 
if made where there is no such officer, then at the first port or place to 
be passed where there is one, and obtain his api)roval of the transship- 
ment, to be indorsed on the permit. The officer so approving will 
l>rompt]y advise the proper officer at the port of destination of his action 
iu the premises. 

PLANTATION SUPPLIES. 

XLIII. stock, implements, and supplies, for plantations worked by 
freedmen under the regulations relating thereto, may be permitted to 
be transported to such plantations without payment of the fees here- 
after ^fcscribed, upon presentation to the permit officer of a certilicate 
of the supervising special agent, or assistant special agent of the dis- 
trict in which they are located, iu the following form : 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 107 

CERTIFICATE FOR PLANTATION SUPPLIES. 

This may certify, That is a loyal person residing in the connty of 

, , in the State of , within the lines of actual occupation 

hy the militar.y forces of the United Scatea, and that he is working the plantation known 

as the '. , iu the of , and State 

of , and that he employs freednien thereon, 

under the regulationsof the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto ; that the articles 
and sui)plies named iu the memorandum thereof, and countersigned by me, and hereto 
attached, are necessary in carrying on the said plantation and supporting the freedmeu 
and their families thereon. 

Dated at this day of , 186 — 

, SjKcial Agent, 

Agency. 

PRODUCTS MOVING WITHOUT PERMIT TO BE SEIZED. 

XLIV. Officers and agents of the Treasurj^ Department are directed 
to seize any products of an insurrectionary State found moving without 
permit, as above iirovided, or without evidence that all fees and Gov- 
ernment dues have been paid, and to cause proceedings to be instituted 
for the forfeiture thereof to the United States. 

FORFEITURE FOR VIOLATIONS. 

XLV. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation, 
violating regulations or local rules, and all cotton, tobacco, or other 
products or merchandise shipped or transported, or purchased or sold 
iu violation thereof, will be forfeited to the United States. If any false 
statement be made or deception practiced in obtaining an authority, cer- 
tilicate, or permit under these reg'ulatious, such authority, certificate, or 
permit, and all others connected therewith or affected thereby, will be ab- 
solutely void, and all merchandise purchased or shipped under them shall 
be forfeited to the United States. In all cases of forfeiture, as afore- 
said, immediate seizure will be made and proceedings instituted promptly 
for condemnation. The attention of all officers of the Government, com- 
mon carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, masters, conductors, agents, 
drivers, and other i)ersons connected with the transportation of mer- 
chandise, or trading therein, is particularly directed to the acts of July 
13, 18G1, May 20, 18G2, March 12, 1863, and July 2, 1861, and to the or- 
ders of the Secretaries of War and of the i^avy, hereto appended. 

FEES. 

XLVI. The following fees are prescribed : 

Fees for administering oath and certifying affidavit 10 cents. 

autbority from agent 3 dolls. 

certificate of assistant or local special agent 10 cents. 

each permit for purposes of trade 20 " 

each permit to transport cotton from any iusuiTcctionary district to 

any loyal State, per pound 4 cents. 

permi t to transport tobacco, per hogshead 2 dolls. 

permit to transport to or from such district, otlier products, goods, 
wares, or merchandise, three per centum on the sworn invoice 
value thereof at the place of shipment, 
for each permit for individual, family, or plantation supplies, on every 

purchase over $20 and not over $50 5 cents. 

over|50 and not over $100 10 " 

over $100 15 " 

For permits for individual, family, or plantation supplies, not over twenty dollars iu 
amouutj no charge is allowed, except for revenue stam^js, on affidavits and certifi- 



108 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

catcs in districts under restriction; and no charf^e, except five cents for permit, and 
five cents for eacli revenue stamp on affidavit ami certificate, is allowed in States 
declared in insurrection. When pnrcliases are less than five dollars, tlie permit 
officer may dispensi; with affidavits and certificates, wlieu no ground to suspect 
fraud or imposition appears. 

Internal-revenue stamps are required by law to be attached to affida- 
vits, certiticates, and bonds, but not to any other iustrunients or writ- 
ings provided for by these regulations. Stamps will be t'uruislied by 
the proper special agents at the rates tised by the internal-revenue act, 
namely : 

Affidavit 5 

Bonds not exceeding $1,000 50 

Bonds exceeding §1,0(J0, for ever}' additional .$1,000 or fractioual part thereof 50 

Certificates 5 

Power of attorney " 50 

XLVII. Every officer authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to 
grant i)ermits under regidation II, shall keep in his office a record of 
every permit granted by him, showing the names of the owner, ship- 
l^er, and consignee, the place from and to which each transportation is 
permitted, the character and invoice value of the merchandise permitted, 
and shall transmit to the Secretary, as nearly as possible on the first day 
of every month, an abstract of such record and an abstract statement, 
showing the permits granted daily to parts of States not declared in in- 
surrection, but in which trade is restricted, and also showing the num- 
ber and aggregate amount of permits granted daily to States declared 
in insurrection, the fees received, an<l tlie disposition made of the same, 
together wit^h the names of all agency aids reporting to him, and the 
compensation paid to each. 

AGENTS TO PAY OVER MONEY, ETC. 

XLYIII. All money received by each assistant or local special agent 
shall be paid over as promi)tly as possible to the supervising special 
agent, or to an assistant treasurer, or designated depositary, as directed 
by him, and so that all receipts during each month shall be paid over 
before the making of his required monthly' report; and all money re- 
ceived by each supervising special agent, or collector, surveyor, or 
otlier officer authorized to grant permits, under these regulations, shall 
be promptly paid over to the assistant treasurer or designated depositary 
most convenient to him, and so that all receipts for each month shall be 
so paid over before the making of his monthly report. 

OFFICERS TO REPORT. 

XLIX. Every officer authorized to receive money uiuler these regu- 
lations shall transmit to the Secretary, on the first of each month, a 
riiport, stating in detail all moneys so received by him during the pre- 
ceding month, and from wliat sources received, together with all ex- 
penses of his office incidental to the execution of these regulations ; and 
if any money has been })aid out or otherwise disposed of by him during 
the month, an account thereof, and by what authority, to whom, or for 
what puri)ose it was so paid or disj)osed of, with the vouchers therefor. 
A diq)li('ate of this report and account, when made by officers in States 
declared in insurrection, or in restricted districts in loyal States, shall, 
at the same time, be transmitted to the supervising special agent for the 
agency in which it shall be made. 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 109 

RECORDS — LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS. 

L. Local special agents sliall keep a record of every permit and cer- 
tificate given by tlieui, with tlie date and amount thereof, and the name 
and residence of the party to whom given ; of all bonds required of 
owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, 
and their action where the required bond is not given. And they will 
also, as nearly as possible on the first day of every month, transmit to 
the proper supervising sjtecial agent a transcript of such record, and 
will deliver to such agent all bonds or securities received by them under 
these regulations. 

RECORDS — ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENTS. 

LT. Assistant special agents shall keep a record of all their official 
transa(;tions, showing specifically and in detail every authority given to 
sell supplies; every authority for the transportation of products ; every 
inspection of a supply store, and the results thereof; all appointments 
of agency aids on cars, vessels, and boats, and the compensation of each ; 
all seizures in cases of excess or evasion of permits to blockaded ports; 
all seizures or detentions of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting 
to depart, when clearance has been refused; all cases of security required 
when goods found in danger of being transported to insurgents, and, if 
security not given, the action taken by them ; all fees received for 
affidavits and authorities to sell supplies, and for the transportation of 
products, and from whom and for what received. And they shall, on 
the first day of every month, transmit to the proper supervising special 
agent a transcript of such record and all bonds or securities received by 
them under these regulations. 

RECORDS — SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS. 

LII. Supervising special agents shall keep a record of all their official 
transactions, showing fully the name and location of each local special 
agent and agency aid appointed by them, and the compensation of each; 
of conferences with generals commanding departments, and designations 
of military lines, (regulation IV;) of all authorities given for supply 
stores, stating the date, name of trader, and amount of goods authorized; 
of the inspection of supply stores, and the results; of all authorities 
given for the transportation of i>roducts, to whom given, and the locality 
from which and to which transportation is permitted; of all revocations 
of authorities, certificates, and permits ; of all information touching any 
goods or transactions given to other otiicers of the Department ; of all 
appointments of agency aids upon cars, vessels, and boats ; of all 
seizures and detention of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting 
to depart, after clearance has been refused ; of all securities required 
and received of owners or holders of goods in danger of being trans- 
ported to insurgents, and of their action if security was not given. And 
on the first day of every month, as nearly as possible, they shall trans- 
mit to this Department an abstract of such record for the previous 
month, together with a copy of the abstracts of records, and a state- 
ment of all bonds and securities received by them from assistant and 
local special agents. 

GENERAL AGENTS. 

LITI. The general agent will visit the several agencies and permit 
officers as often as practicable, and take or direct such action as may 



110 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

be necessary to insure a uniform constriu'tion of these regulations and 
liarinony of action under them ; direct the makings of such local rules by 
supervisin|[if special agents as in his judgment slmll be proper ; hear and 
decide, or refer to the Secretary of the Treasury, appeals froui the action 
of the su])ervising or other special agents; and generally to cause the 
laws and regulations governing restricted intercourse to be faithfully 
and honestly administered. And he shall i)roraptly rei)ort to the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury all misconduct or inefticiency on the part of super- 
vising, assistant, or other agents and ofl&cers engaged in executing these 
regulations. 

THESE EEGULATIONS TO SUrERSEDE ALL OTHERS. 

LIV. These regulations shall supersede those of September 11, 1863, 
and all others conflicting herewith, affecting commercial intercourse 
■with States declared in insurrection ; and all permits hereafter granted 
by any oflicer of the Treasury Department will be granted in i)ursuance 
of them and of the local rules authorized by them, or by virtue of 
authority hereafter given by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

AUTHORITIES REVOKED. 

LV. All existing authorities to purchase products in insurrectionary 
States are hereby revoked, except that products purchased in good faith 
nnder such authorities, and paid ibr prior to the date hereof, may be 
transported in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as 
products raised by the labor of freed men, (reguhition XXXVIII.) 

All authorities to transport goods, wares, or merchandise into an in- 
surrectionary State are hereby revoked. 

WHEN REGULATIONS TAKE EFFECT. 

LVI. These regulations shall take effect upon the publication thereof. 



ABANDONED, CAPTURED, AND CONFISCABLE PER- 
SONAL PROPERTY. 



Regulations prescribed by the Secretary of tJie Treasury concerning aban- 
doned, capturedy and confiscable lyroyerty, under the acts of Congress 
res2)€ctiv€ly approved March 12, 1863, and July 2, 1864. 

AGENTS TO CARRY OUT THESE REGULATIONS. 

I. The regiilatious relative to abandoned, captured, and confiscable 
personal property will be carried into effect by the same agents and 
under the same supervision as are i)rovided under the regulations con- 
cerning commercial intercourse. 

ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENTS IN EACH AGENCY. 

II. There shall be assigned to each special agency such number of 
assistant special agents as may be necessary, who, with the supervising 
special agent, shall collect and receive all abandoned, captured, and 
confiscable property, except such as has been used or was intended to 
be used for waging or carrying on war against the United States, viz : 
arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats, or other water-craft, and their 
furniture, forage, military supplies, and munitions of war. 

ABANDONED, CAPURED, AND CONFISCABLE PROPERTY DESCRIBED. 

III. Abandoned property is that which has been or may be deserted 
by the owners, or when the lawfnl owners thereof shall be voluntarily 
absent therefrom and engaged, either in arms or otherwise, in aiding or 
encouraging the rebellion. 

Captured property is that which has been or may* be seized or taken 
from hostile possession by the military or naval forces of the United 
States. 

Confiscable property is that which is liable to confiscation under the 
act of July 17, 1862. 

AGENTS TO KEEP RECORDS. 

IV. Each agent collecting or receiving any such property will imme- 
diately make and keep a full record of all the facts or information con- 
cerning it known or accessible to him, including, as nearly as possible, 
the following : the character and quantity of the property received or 
collected, where captured or found, received as abandoned, under what 
circumstances, by whom owned or alleged to be owned, noting, where 
practicable, the name and address of one or more truthful residents of 
the neighborhood acquainted with the property and the owner or 
claimant thereof, and any statemeuts they may make in connection 
therewith, by wiiom such property was captured, abandoned, or seized 
for confiscation, by whom received or collected, from whom received, 
all names, marks, signs, or devices (whether distinct, indistinct, or par- 
tially erased) upon such property, together with all other information 



112 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED TROPERTY, ETC. 

whieli may in any way serve to identity or make known tbe history of 
any particular lot, or to trace the same, or the proceeds thereof, from 
the earliest period possible to its iinal disposition. 

He will also char<>'e against each lot and keep a true and detailed 
accDunt in triplicate of each item of expense incurred in its collection, 
transportation, care and sale or other disposition made by him, or where 
two or more lots are treated to.£jether, a fair and just proportion against 
each, as well as all fees due, in any way, to the Government thereon. 

AGENTS TO MAKE REPORTS. 

V. When such property is collected or received by an assistant special 
agent, he will promptly transmit one copy of the above record to the 
Secretary of the Treasury, and one to the proper sui>ervising special 
agent, and will retain one copy for his own files. When it is so col- 
lected or received by a supervising special agent, he will transmit one 
copy of the record to the Secretary of the Treasury and retain one copy 
for his own files. 

AGENTS TO RECEIVE AND COLLECT ABANDONED PERSONAL PROPERTY 

AND GIVE RECEIPTS. 

YI. Such agents will receive and collect abandoned personal property 
from any officer or private of the regular or volunteer forces of the 
United States, or any officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of 
the United States, upon the inland waters of the United States, who 
may have, take, or receive any abandoned property from persons in such 
insurrectionary districts, or have it under their control, and the agent 
receiving it will in all cases give a receipt therefor in the following 
form : 

Received of 

, estimated 

at $ , taken or received and held by liiin as abandoned property in 

an insurrectionary district, and claimed to be tbe property of 

■ , and turned over to me by said , , 

which projx'rty I liave received as agent of the Treasury Department, appointed in 
pursuance of certain acts of Congress, approved July 13, 1891, May 20, 186'i, March 12, 
1863, and Jiilyi, 1864.' 

The said property to be transported and disposed of under the regulations of the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury prescribed in pursuance of the authority conferred on him by 
said acts. 

Dated , 18fi.. 

And a record of the property so (collected and received shall be made, 
and the property disposed of as directed in regulations IV, IX, XI, and 
XV. 

AGENTS TO RECEIVE PROPERTY FROM PERSONS IN MILITARY' OR NAVAL 

SERVICE. 

VII. Such agents will collect and receive of any officer or priv^ate, or 
person employed in or with the regular or volunteer forces of the United 
States, any property held by him which shall have been captured in any 
distiict declared to be in insurrection against the United States, except 
such as shall be required for military use of the United States forces ; 
and all proi)erty so held by them shall be received by the agent as cap- 
tured property, leaving all questions concerning the class to which it 
belongs for the consideration of the Secretary of the Treasury j and they 



ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY, ETC. 113 

shall also receive with such property the necessary invoices thereof, aud 
all receipts,*bills of lading, and other papers, documents, and vouchers 
'showing title to such property or the right to the possession, control, or 
direction thereof, and such order, indorsement, or writing as the party 
has power to malie, to enable such agent to talce possession of such 
property or the proceeds thereof. 

And he will give to the officer, jirivate, or person from whom any 
property- is so received, a receipt in the form following : 

Received of estimated 

at $ , captured by the forces of tlie United States, and claimed to 

be the property of 

-which property I have received as special agent of the Treasury Department, appointed' 
in pursuance of certain acts of Congress approved July 13, 1861, May 20, 1862, March 
1-2, 1B63, and July 2, 1864. The said property to be transported and disposed of under 
the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury prescribed in pursuance of the author- 
ity conferred on him by said acts. 

And a record of the property so collected aud received shall be made, 
and copies transmitted, and the property disposed of as directed in reg- 
ulations IV, IX, XI, and XV. 

PROPERTY REQUIRED FOR PUBLIC USE TO BE APPRAISED AND DELIV- 
ERED OVER. 

VIII. When any part of the goods or property received or collected 
by any supervising or assistant special agent is demanded for public 
use, and a requisition therefor is presented, signed by the general com- 
manding department, or by some other officer authorized by such com- 
mander of department, the special agent having such property in charge 
shall select three competent and disinterested persons, to be approved 
by such officer, who shall make oath for the faithful discharge of their 
duties, and who shall appraise said goods or property, and make a cer- 
tificate thereof in the following form : 

The undersigned having been appointed by , special agent, to 

appraise certain property alleged to have been collected or received as abandoned 
property or captured by , special agent of the Treasury De- 
partment, having each of us made oath for the faithful discharge of our duty as such 
appraisers, do certify that we have carefully examined aud appraised the following 

described property, to wit ; \ , and that said 

property is worth 



Jl)2)raisers. 

Which certificate shall be certified by the special agent and by the 
officer receiving said property ; and the goods or property so appraised 
shall be delivered over to the officer appointed to receive it; and the 
special agent shall in all such cases require from the officer or agent 
receiving said goods or property a receipt in the following form : 

Received of , alleged to have 

been collected or received by him as abandoned or captured, and which has been this 

day appraised by , appraisers 

appointed with my approval, to be worth dollars, which property has been 

delivered to me by said agent to be appropriated to the public use, as provided in the 
second section of the act of Congress approved March 12, 1863, entitled " An act to pro- 
vide for the collection of abandoned property, aud the prevention of frauds in insur- 
rectionary districts within the United States." 

And he shall keep a record of all expenses incurred on account there- 
of, with a full description of all such property, and shall make a full 
report of such apx)raisal proceedings to the Secretary of the Treasury, 
Sag 



114 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY, ETC. 

and transmit therewith copies of all papers in the case; and if an 
assistant special agent, he shall send copies of the report and all other 
papers in the case to the proper supervising special agent. 

DISPOSITION OF PERISHABLE PROPERTY AND SUCH AS CANNOT BE 

TRANSPORTED. 

IX. In all cases where captured and abandoned property of a perish- 
able nature shall be collected or received by the proper agents of this 
Department, and its immediate sale is required by the interest of all 
concerned, such agent shall, where practicable, forward it without delay 
to the nearest place designated by the Secretary or by regulation as a 
place of sale within a loyal State, consigned to the proper officer of 
this Department, who shall forthwith cause it to be sold at auction to 
the highest bidder; all such shipments to be accompanied by a state- 
ment as required by regulation IV. 

If, from the character of the property, it shall be impracticable so to 
transport it, the agent shall cause the same to be appraised by three 
disinterested persons, and to be sold at public auction, and promptly 
transDiit a full re])ort, as prescribed by regulation lY, together with the 
certificate of appraisal, taken in triplicate, and the account of sales, and 
hold the proceeds subject to the direction of the supervising special 
agent for that agency. 

CONTRACTS FOR COLLECTION AND DELIVERY" OF PROPERTY. 

X. "When property is liable to be lost or destroyed, in consequence of its 
location being unknown to the special agents, or from other causes, and 
parties propose, for compensation, to collect and deliver it into the 
hands of such agents, at points designated by them, supervising special 
agents may contract, on behalf of the United States, for the collection 
and delivery to them of such property in their respective agencies, on 
the best possible terms, not exceeding twenty-five per cent, of the pro- 
ceeds of the property, which percentage must be full compensation for 
all expenses, of whatever character, incurred in collecting, preparing, 
and delivering such property at the points designated. Prior to any 
such contract being made, the party proposing must submit, in writing, 
a statement of the kind and amount of proi)erty proposed to be col- 
lected, the locality whence to be obtained, and all the facts and circum- 
stances connected with it, particularly as to its ownership. And any 
contract made in pursuance of this regulation must be in writing, and 
restricted to the collection and delivery of particular lots at named lo- 
calities; or, when circumstances clearly justify it, to the general collec- 
tion and delivery of all abandoned property in limited districts not 
greater in any case than one parish or county, and not more than one 
district to be assigned to one contractor. 

Before payment to any contractor under any contract made in pursu- 
ance of this regulation, he shall execute a bond, with penalty equal to 
the amount stipulated to be paid to him, and with sureties satisfactory 
to the supervising sjjccial agent, indemnifying the United States against 
all claims to the property delivered on account of damages by trespass, 
or otherwise occasioned by the act or connivance of the contractor, and 
against all claims that ma'y arise on account of expenses incurred in the 
collection, preparation, and transportation of said property to the points 
designated in said contract. 

Should a case arise in the oj^inion of the supervising special agent 



ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPEETY, ETC. 115 

justifying the payment of a larger percentage than one-quarter of the 
proceeds of the property, he will make a statement of the facts and cir- 
cumstances and the reasons in his opinion justifying such additional al- 
lowance, and refer the same to the Secretary for instructions. 

And for the purpose of getting possession of and transporting to 
market as much of the captured and abandoned property as possible, 
supervising special agents, or assistant special agents under their direc- 
tion, will appoint and employ in their respective agencies, at such per 
diem compensation as may be judged proper, subject to approval of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, such local special agents and agency aids as 
may be necessary therefor, instructing them fully as to the execution of 
the duties respectively assigned to them. 

DISPOSITION OF CONFISCABLE PROPERTY. 

XI. All confiscable personal property collected or received in any 
agency shall forthwith be forwarded to the supervising special agent 
thereof, or as directed by him to the proper officer of the Treasury De- 
l^artment, at the port or place to which it shall be sent for legal pro- 
ceedings, under the act of July 17, 1862; and upon ijresentation to such 
officer by the United States marshal of the proper writ in such proceed- 
ings, issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, the said property shall 
be delivered to him. Upon making such delivery, the officer delivering 
will require from the marshal duplicate receipts therefor, in the follow- 
ing form : 

Received of , supervising special agent, appointerl to collect and 

recu'ive confiscable property, as provided in the act of Congress approved July 2, 1864, 

the following described property, viz : , 

wliich it is alleged belonged to , of , in the 

State of , whose property, it is charged, is confiscable under the 

act of Congress approved July 17, 1862. 

By virtue of a writ issued by the court, in proceedings therein for the 

condemnation of said property under the last-named act, I have deuuiuded and re- 
ceived the same. 

Dated ,186 . 

RECORD TO BE KEPT OF CONFISCABLE PROPERTY. 

XIT. Agents collecting and receiving such property will be careful to 
ascertain and record, in addition to the requirements of regulation IV, 
all allegations against the owner of the property, together with the 
names and residences of witnesses by whom they can be sustained, and 
all other facts relating thereto which may tend to secure justice under 
the law; and will transmit one copy thereof to the United States at- 
torney, who is to institute proceedings for confiscation. 

CAPTURED, ABANDONED, OR CONFISCABLE PROPERTY TO BE RELEASED 
ONLY BY AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY. 

XIII. No property collected or received as captured, abandoned, or 
confiscable under any act of Congress shall be released by any agent, 
except by special authority from the Secretary of the Treasury, to any 
persons claiming ownership of such property ; nor shall any permit be 
given by such agents to individuals to remove such property; nor shall 
any liability be incurred or assumed, or contract be made on the part 
of the United States by such agents, except as authorized by these reg- 
ulations. No personal favor shall in any case be extended to one indi- 
vidual or party rather than another. 



116 ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY, ETC. 

ASSISTANT AGENTS TO FORWARD PROPERTY. 

XIV. All abandoned, captured, or confiscable property collected or 
received by an assistant special agent will be promptly forwarded by 
him to tlie sni)ervising special agent of the agency in which it shall be 
collected or received, or to such place of sale as he may direct. And 
all such ])roperty collected or received hy a supervising special agent 
shall be by him either sold or forwarded for sale, in compliance with in- 
structions to him from the Secretary of the Treasury, or from the gen- 
eral agent of the Treasury Department. 

DISPOSITION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. 

XV. All personal property collected and received in compliance with 
these regulations, other than such as may be appropriated to public 
use, shall be transported to such places as shall be designated by the 
Secretaiy of the Treasury as places of sale, consigned to the supervis- 
ing special agent of the agency in which it is collected or received, if 
within his agencj", or to such other i^erson as shall be speciall}' author- 
ized by t lie Secretary to receive the same, and shall there be sold by 
such supervising special agent, or other i)erson, at public auction, to 
the highest bidder, for lawful money, pursuant to notice previously 
published of the time and place of sale. 

PAYMENT OF EXPENSES OF IROPERTY. 

XVI. Supervising special agents, and such other persons as shall be 
specially authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive and sell 
captured, abandoned, and confiscable property, will pay, or cause to be 
paid, out of the general fund arising from the sale of all such property 
received and sold by them, all expenses necessarily incurred in collect- 
ing, receiving:, securing, and disposing of the same, including fees, taxes, 
freights, storage, charges, labor, and other necessary expenses, being 
careful to avoid all useless or indiscreet exi)enditures; and will charge 
each particular lot or parcel with the specific or proportionate amount 
of all such expenses as can be niade specific or proi)ortionate charges 
to each lot or i)arcel ; and will also charge and retain, out of the pro- 
ceeds of each lot or parcel, one and one half i)er centum thereof, for the 
payment of such expenses connected with the collection, transi)ortation, 
and sale or other disposition thereof as cannot be made specific or pro- 
portionate charges against each lot or ])arcel, or are not otherwise pro- 
vided for, such as rents, compensation to clerks or other employes, auc- 
tioneers, printing and advertising, a carefully stated account of which 
will be kept by such agents or other persons, showing in detail all ex- 
l)enses i)aid out of this fund arising from such charge: and unless un- 
avoi<lably prevented, they will take vouchers for all expenditures made 
under this regulation, and transmit the same with their accounts to the 
Secretary of the Treasury. Out of the balance, if any, of said one and 
one-half i)er centum remaining after defraying said expenses, the sev- 
eral supervising special agents, or other persons selling as aforesaid, 
may retain, as compensation for extra care and responsibility, a sum 
not exceeding three-fourths of one per centum of the amount of such 
sales, and Avitli the remainder, if any, may reward extra services in the 
collection and care of i)r()perty rendered by agents and others, in such 
manner, and to such amount, as may be approved or directed by the 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY, ETC. 117 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS TO RENDER MONTHLY ACCOUNT-CUR. 

RENT. 

XVII. Each supervising special agent, or other person as aforesaid, 
shall make a full record of each lot or parcel of property coming to his 
possession in the manner prescribed by regulation IV, and report the 
same, and all sales or other disposition thereof made by him, rendering 
a monthly account-current of all his transactions to the Secretary, ac- 
companying the same with receipts or other vouchers for all moneys 
paid out by him. All balances remaining in his hands shall be depos- 
ited in the Treasury, from time to time, as directed by the Secretary. 



ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE LANDS, HOUSES, 
AND TENEMENTS. 



Regulations concerning the charge and leasing of abandoned and conjisca- 
hie lands, houses, and tenements, in States declared in insurrection, made 
in pursuance of the act of Congress on that subject, approved July 2, 18(34. 

AGENTS TO CARRY OUT THESE REGULATIONS. 

I. The regulations relative to abandoned and confiscable lands, houses, 
and tenements will be carried into effect by the same agents, and under 
the same supervision, as are provided under the regulations concerning 
commercial intercourse. 

AGENTS TO TAKE POSSESSION OF ABANDONED LANDS, TENEMENTS, ETC. 

II. The supervising special agent of each agency, and such assistant 
special agents therein as shall be designated for that purpose, will take 
possession of all lands, houses, and tenements therein, abandoned by 
the lawful owners thereof, and all such as are confiscable under the act 
of Congress approved July 17, 1862. 

ASSISTANT AGENT TO KEEP RECORD AND MAIvE REPORT. 

III. When an assistant special agent shall take possession of any such 
property, he will promptly record, in a book to be kept by him for that 
purpose, a full description of the i)roperty, with a statement of its con- 
dition, the name of the owner, and any facts relating to him, or to the 
property, which may aftect the rights of the United States, or of others 
interested in the property, one copy of which record he will promptly 
transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury, and one to the proper su])er- 
vising special agent, who will record the same in a book to be kept for 
that purpose. 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENT TO MAIvE RECORD AND REPORT. 

IV. When a supervising special agent shall take possession of any 
such property, he will make a record as above required of an assistant 
special agent, and will transmit a copy thereof to the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 

LANDS, TENEIVIENTS, ETC., TO BE LEASED. 

V. All property so possessed will be rented as soon as practicable by 
the supervising special agent, or the assistant special agent, under his 
direction, having such possession. No lease will be made for more than 
twelve months, and, when practicable, such property shall be rented 
from month to month. All leases will be in writing, and those for plan- 
tations shall be in the following form : 

Mkmoijandum of an agkeemknt made this clay of , 

IfcO , between , sjjecial agent of the Treasury Department, 



ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE LANDS, HOUSES, ETC. 119 

duly appointed iiuder the acts of Congress respectively approved March 12, 1863, and 
July 2, 1864, for taking charge of captured and abandoned property, and leasing aban- 
doned and confiscable lauds, houses, and tenements in the agency, and 

of , in the county of , and State 

of 

Witnesseth, that in pursuance of said acts, and of the instructions of the Secretary 
of the Treasury, the said agent, for and in behalf of the United States, agrees, upon 

the terms hereinafter contained, to lease to the said , from 

the day of , 186 , to the day of , 

186 , the following described lands and premises, to wit : 

And the said hereby agrees that one equal part of 

the productions realized by the cultivation and working of the plantation aforesaid 
shall be promptly gathered, prepared, and delivered to the authorized agent of the 

United States at , on or before the day of , 

186 , in proper i>ackages and condition for transportation. 

And the said further agrees, in relation to the employ- 
ment and payment of freedmen worked upon the said plantation, that he will emidoj'' 
and pay them, and provide for their families in compliance with the regulations of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, dated July 29, 1864, concerning the employment and gen- 
eral welfare of freedmen, which regulations are made a part of this agreement, so far 
as they relate to employers and employed ; and further, that he will do all things re- 
quired of him by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury concerning aban- 
doned, captured, and confiscable property. 

Signed, sealed, and delivered iu presence of — 

. [L. S.] 

.[L. S.] 

WHEN LEASE IS FOR HOUSES AND TENEMENTS ONLY. 

VI. Wheu the lease is for houses aud tenemeuts only, then it shall 

be iu the above form to the words " to lease to the said ," 

and instead of what follows therein insert as follows : 
f 

rom the day of 18 . . , from month to month, either 

party hereto being at liberty to terminate this lease at the end of any month from the 
date hereof, the following described premises: : 

And the said hereby agrees to pay the said agent 

dollars per month, for each month from the date hereof, so long as he 

shall coutinue in possession of the said pi'emises, and to pay the rent of each month in 
advance, and at the expiration of this lease as aforesaid to deliver possession of the 
said property to the said agent, or his successor, in as good condition as the same is 
now in, loss by fire or other unavoidable injuiy excepted- 

Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of — 

. [L. s.] 

. [L. S.] 

LEASES TO BE MADE IN TRIPLICATE. 

YII. All leases of hnds, houses, and tenements shall be made iu trip- 
licate, one of which sUll be retained by the lessee, one will be retained 
by the special agent making the lease, and one will be forwarded to the 
Secretary of the Treasury. A record will be made by each agent mak- 
ing a lease, containing a copy thereof, and any fiicts connected there- 
with which may affect the same. A copy of the record will also 
be made iu a book kept by the supervising special ageut for that pur- 
pose. 

AGENT TO RECEIPT FOR RENTS. 

VIII. Upcn the receipt of products or money for rent, the agent re- 
ceiving ths same will iudorse his receipt therefor upon the copy of 
the lease held by the lessee, and also give him a certified copy of the 
receipt, which the lessee will promptly forward to the Secretary of the 
Treasvry. 



120 ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE LANDS, HOUSES, ETC. 

ASSISTANT AGENTS TO KEEP EECOKD OF RENTS RECEIVED. 

IX. When products or money shall be received bj-an assistant special 
ag'ent, he will make an entry in his books of account, stating the prod- 
ucts or amount of money so received, the name of the person from 
whom received, and the lease upon account of which they are paid, the 
date of receipt, and any other tacts connected therewith which should 
be recorded. Pie will promptly send the ]n'oducts or money so received, 
with a copy of the entry made, to the proper supervising special agent, 
who will credit the products or money in his books of account, and make 
an entry in each case simiUir to that above required, and send dui)licate 
receipts in each case to the assistant special agent, who will retain one 
copy and send the other to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

SUPERVISING AGENTS TO KEEP RECORD OF RENTS RECEIVED. 

X. When the products or moneys are received by a supervising special 
agent, he will make the same entry above required of assistant special 
agents in his books of account, and will send a copj- thereof to the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury. 

DESCRIPTION OF CONFISCABLE LANDS, TENEMENTS, ETC., TO BE KEPT. 

XI. A careful description of all lands, houses, and tenements taken 
possession of by a supervising special agent, or by bis direction, as con- 
fiscable, will be recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose, in 
w^hich will be entered all allegations against the owner which are relied 
on for condemnation, together with the names and residence of the wit- 
nesses to substantiate them, a copy of which record in each case will be 
sent to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

COPY OF RECORD OF CONFISCABLE LANDS, ETC., TO BE SENT TO UNITED 
STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN CERTAIN CASES. 

XII. When any such lands, houses, and tenements are situated in a 
district within jurisdiction of a Federal court exercising its functions, a 
copy of the above record, together with a statement of any other facts 
known to the supervising special agent affecting tie same, will be sent 
by him to the i)roper United States district attorney, that proceedings 
for confiscation may be instituted, but such a^fent will continue in 
charge of the property until relieved therefrom li^' order of the court in 
which such proceedings are instituted. , 

PRODUCTS RECEIVED FOR RENTS TO BE SOLD. 

XIII. Supervising special agents will sell or dispose of all products re- 
ceived by them for rents, in the same manne; and subject to the same 
regulations as are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury concern- 
ing the sale and disposition of captured, abauconed, and confiscable per- 
sonal property. 

MONEY RECEIVED FOR RENTS TO BE DEPOSITilD. 

XIV. All money arising from rents, after payment therefiom of any 
expenses that maybe approved by the Secretary of the Treasur;5, will be 
deposited by the supervising special agents, with a designated Tjuited 



ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE LANDS, HOUSES, ETC. 121 

States depositary or assistant treasurer, and each supervising special 
agent will make a full record of all bis proceedings, and will report the 
same from time to time to the Secretary of the Treasury, and will render 
to him a monthly account-current of all his transactions, accompanying 
the same with receipts or other vouchers for all moneys paid out by 
him, referring to the letter of a^iproval thereof from the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 

EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE OF FREEDMEN. 

XV. In leasing abandoned and confiscable lands, provisions shall be 
made, as far as practicable, for the employment and general welfare of 
freedmen,and provision may be made in such leases, and also with those 
working their own lauds and employing freedmen under rules established 
in relation thereto, for obtaining supplies free from the payment of the 
fee charged in other cases, and for the support of the helpless among 
such freedmen. 



FREEDMEN. 



Regulations providing for the employment and general welfare of all per- 
sons within the lines of national military occupation within insurrection- 
ary States, formerly held as slaves, who are or shall become free. 

AGENTS TO CARRY OUT THESE REGULATIONS. 

I. The regulations relative to the employment and general welfare of 
freed men will be carried into effect by the same agents and under the 
same supervision as are provided under the regulations concerning 
commercial intercourse. 

freed:men's home colonies. 

II. There shall be established in each special agency one or more 
places to be known as "Freedmen's Home Colonies," where all freed 
persons within the agency may be received and provided for in pursu- 
ance of these regulations. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF FREEDMEN — HIS DUTIES. 

III. A superintendent of freedmen will be appointed for each one of 
these colonies, under the general direction of the proper supervising 
special agent. Superintendents will make such arrangements as shall 
be necessary at each colony to provide temporary shelter and care for 
persons received there, and also such buildings as are proper for the 
permanent use of those retained there; and will obtain such working 
animals and other agricultural implements of labor and other supplies 
as may be necessary and proper for the economical conduct of these es- 
tablishments. They will also keep books of record in which shall be 
entered the name, age, condition, former owner, residence, and occupa- 
tion of each person received in these colonies ; also the marriages, 
births, and deaths occurring therein ; also all departures, and by whom 
those departing are employed, for what purpose, at what place, and on 
what terms. 

CLASSIFICATION OF FREED:VIEN AND THEIR WAGES. 

IV. All i>ersons of proper age and condition to labor, when received 
shall be classified by the superintendent as follows : sound persons over 
18 and under 40 years of age shall be classed as No. 1 hands ; over 14 
and under 18, and over 40 and under 55, No. 2; over 12 and under 14, 
and over 55, No. 3. Persons suffering from any physical defect or in- 
firmity, but able to work, shall be classed as he considers proper. The 
minimum rates of wages of No. 1 males shall be $25 per month; No. 2, 
$20; No. 3, $15. Nos. 1, 2, and 3, females, $18, $14, $10. These rates 
shall not restrict mechanics and others from contracting for higher 
wages if they can do so. 



FREEDMEN. 123 

E^NIPLOYMENT TO BE PROVIDED FOR FREEDMEN OF PROPER AGE. 

V. Superintendents will see that all persons so received, registered, 
and classified, who are able to labor, are promptly provided with employ- 
ment by lessees or others desiring their labor, upon the terms specified, 
and they will permit none over the age of twelve capable of labor to re- 
main in idleness; and they will, as far as possible, obtain from planters 
and others the names and other particulars above specified of all freed 
persons in their employ or within their knowledge in the district within 
which these colonies are located, a record of which shall be kept by 
them as above provided, and they will do what they consistently can to 
see that all such persons are provided with employment at rates equal 
to those above specified, and that the helpless among them are j)roperly 
cared for. 

APPLICATIONS FOR LABORERS TO BE RECEIVED AND RECORDED. 

YI. Superintendents will receive and record all applications for the 
labor of freedmen, that those received may be promptly furnished with 
employment. Planters and others employing parents will be required to 
take their children with them, unless the parent prefers to have them re- 
main, in which case superintendents will see that provision is made to 
applj suflticient wages of theiJarent to support the children at the colony. 

WRITTEN AGREEMENTS TO BE MADE BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EM- 
I PLOYES, AND CONDITIONS. 

VII. Superintendents shall see that written agreements are made be- 
tween the employer and the employe, by which, in addition to the wages 
above fixed, the employer shall agree to furnish, without charge, suffi- 
cient quarters for the laborers, a separate tenement for each family, 
with proper regard for sanitary conditions, one acre of ground for gar- 
den purposes to each family, fuel, medical attendance, and schools for 
children ; also, that laborers shall be paid tor full time unless they are 
sick or voluntarily neglect to work ; that one-half their monthly wages 
shall be paid to the laborer during each month, and the other half at 
the end of the term of employment; that, in case the laborer violates 
his contract by voluntary absence or continued neglect to work, the 
half wages due to him shall be forfeited, one-half to the employer, and 
one-half to the Government to aid in supporting the helpless; that any 
wages due to the laborers, nnder the agreement, shall be a first lien 
upon all crops produced, and that no shipment of products shall be 
made until the superintendent shall certify that all dues to laborers are 
paid or satisfactorily arranged ; that no labor in excess of ten hours per 
day shall be required, but if more shall be performed at the request of 
the employer, extra payment shall be made therefor ; that the employers 
shall keep on hand and sell to their employes, at actual cost on the 
plantation, a sufiicient supply of wholesome food and proper clothing for 
themselves and their families. 

INTEREST IN PROFITS OF LABOR 3IAY BE GIVEN INSTEAD OF WAGES. 

VIII. In case any person employing freedmen to labor on plantations 
shall wish to give an interest in the profits of their labor instead of 
the wages above fixed, and the laborers desire to accept the same, au 



124 " FREEDMEN. 

a^reemoiit iu writing" may be made accordingly, subject to the approval 
of the proper superintendent. 

Where civil courts are established within reach of parties com plain- 
ing under these agreements, they may seek redress there; but if no 
such courts are within reach, then the complaining party may state his 
case to a superintendent, who, after hearing both parties, shall decide 
between them. Either party may appeal to the proper supervising 
special agent, whose decision shall be final. 

CARE OF AGED AND INFIRM FREEDMEN. 

IX. Aged or infirm freed persons, and orphan children under twelve 
years of age, and others unfit for regular labor who cannot be otherwise 
provided for, will be retained and provided for by superintendents, and 
each superintendent will see that all such persons under his care per- 
form all such labor as is proper, considering their condition; and he will 
employ as many hands, at regular rates, as may be requisite to produce 
on the i>lantation all things that can be raised, necessary to the support 
of the establishment, rind no more; and he will require all freed per- 
sons temporarily there to labor without wages, until they can be em- 
ployed elsewhere. He will provide such medical attendance and schools 
as are necessary and proper. 

HOME COLONIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO ASSOCIATIONS UPON CERTAIN 

CONDITIONS. 

X. Any association or combination of associations desiring to improve 
the condition of freedmen will have assigned to their care and general* 
charge such freedmen's home colonies as they may desire, and as they 
can give satisfactory assurance of their ability to provide for. Superin- 
tendents for any such colonies will be appointed upon the nomination 
and in pursuance of the wishes of such associations, and every proper 
facility for the execution of their purposes will be given by the super- 
vising and assistant special agents. Associations desiring to operate 
under this clause are notified that the Secretary reserves the right to 
revoke or modify this regulation whenever, in his judgment, the public 
interests will be promoted by such action. 

RESERVATIONS OF LAND FOR FREEDMEN'S LABOR COLONIES. 

XL For the purpose of promoting habits of industry and self-reliance 
among freedmen, and to encoui-age them to locate in colonies, and to 
enable them to work advantageously, there "will be reserved in the re- 
spective special agencies such contiguous abandoned and confiscable 
lands and plantations as may be proper for that purpose, for the exclu- 
sive use and cultivation of freedmen, which reservations will be called 
freedmen's labor colonies. Over each of these colonies there will be 
appointed a superintendent for leasing small tracts therein to such 
freedmen as are. able to work them; and such lessees shall be subject 
to the same conditions and entitled to the same rights and privileges 
as other lessees. 

LABOR COLONIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO ASSOCIATIONS ON CERTAIN 

CONDITIONS. 

XII. Any association or combination of associations desiring to aid 
lessees in such colonies who have not sufficient means to cultivate with- 



FREEDMEN. 125 

out aid, will have set apart to their beneficiaries such part or the whole 
of any one of these colonies as they shall give satisfactory assurance of 
their ability to provide for; and in case they agree to provide the 
necessary working animals, agricultural implements, seeds, and other 
aid which may be necessary for the cultivation of the whole of any sucli 
colony, such superintendent will be appointed as may be desired by the 
association. Associations desiring to operate under this clause are 
notified that the Secretary reserves the right to revoke or modify this 
regulation whenever, in his judgment, the public interests will be pro- 
moted by such action. 

SCHOOLS WILL BE ESTABLISHED. 

XIII. Schools will be established within these home and labor col- 
onies suflicient for the education of all children there under the age of 
twelve years, teachers for which will be provided by the superintendent 
or by the association, as the case may be. 

PENALTIES FOR ILL USAGE OF FREEDMEN. 

XIV. Ill usage of freedmeu by lessees or others employed by them will 
be regarded as sufQcient ground for the forfeiture of the contract be- 
tween lessee and laborer, or, if the case be an aggravated one, of the 
lease of a plantation. Superintendents will promptly and fully investi- 
gate complaints of this character, and if they prove to be well founded 
they will annul the contract for labor as above. If, in their opinion, this 
action is inadequate, they will report the case to the proper sui)ervisiug 
special agent, who may, if he thinks i^roper, cancel the lease, subject to 
appeal to the general agent. 

EXPENSES TO BE APPROVED BY SECRETARY. — COPIES OF ALL PAPERS 

TO BE TRANSMITTED. 

XV. All expenses must be authorized and approved by the Secretary 
of the Treasury. Each superintendent, on the hrst of every month, will 
furnish the Secretary of the Treasury and the proper supervising special 
agent with coi)ies of all records, agreements, and other papers under 
his charge, and also a monthly statement of accounts, of all receipts 
and expenditures, with vouchers for all money paid out. Supervising 
special agents will render a monthly account-current of all receipts and 
expenditures within their respective agencies under these regulations, 
accompanied with vouchers for all money paid by them. 



War Departjient, July 29, 1864. 
The attention of all officers and soldiers of the Army of the United 
States, whether volunteer or regular, is specially directed to the regula- 
tions of the Secretary of the Treasury, approved by the President, dated 
July 29, 1804:, and superseding the regulations of September 11, 1863; 
and they will in all respects observe General Order of this Department 
numbered eighty-eight, and dated March 31, 1863, with regard to said 
regulations of July 2t), 1864, as if the same had been originally framed 
and promulgated with reference to them; and attention is called to the 
several acts of Congress appended hereto, and especially to sections 
nine and ten of the act approved July 2, 1864. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War, 



126 FREEDMEN. 

Kavy Depabtment, Juhj 29, 18G4. 
The attention of all officers, sailors, and marines of the Navy of the 
United States is especially directed to the regnlations of the Secretary 
of the Treasnry, approved by the President, dated Jnly 29, 18(U, and 
superseding- the regnlations of September 11, 18G3, and they will, in all 
respects, observe the order of this Department dated March 31, 18G3, 
with regard to said regnlations of July 29, 1804, as if the same had been 
originally promulgated in reference to them; and attention is called to 
the several acts of Congress appended hereto, and especially to sections 
nine and ten of the said act approved July 2, 1804. 

GIDEON WELLES, 
Secretary of the Kavy. 



Quartermaster General's Office, 

Washington City, August 4, 1804. 

I. All officers of the Quartermaster's Department, upon receiving from 
the duly authorized agents of the Treasury Department written applica- 
tion for the use of transportation by land or water for collecting and 
forwarding to market abandoned, captured, and confiscable proi)erty, 
under the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 29th July, 
1804, will submit such applications to their immediate commander, with 
such explanation as to the available means of transportation on hand, 
and the quantity called for by the application, as will enable the com- 
manding officer to decide whether it can be furnished without interfer- 
ence with or injury to the military service or operations of the troops 
under his command. 

If approved by the commander, the transportation will be furnished. 

II. Of all actual expenditures incurred by the Quartennaster's Depart- 
ment in executing this order, accurate account will be kept, which will 
be transmitted to the Quartermaster General, with full explanations, in 
order that the a])propriation of the Quartermaster's Department may be 
reimbursed by the Treasury Department out of the proceeds of sales of 
property collected under this order. 

No charge will be made for the use of steamers and sail-vessels for the 
transportation or collection of such property unless there is detention 
during the time of collecting, loading, or discharging the property. 

For all time thus consumed the proper charges, as of time of char- 
tered vessels, of crews, and for coal and stores consumed, will be made. 

M. C. MEIGS, 
Bvt. Maj. Gen. and Q. M. Gen. 



Executive Office, 

September 7, 1805. 
It is hereby ordered, that so much of the Executive Order bearing 
date the 7th day of June, 1805, as made it the duty of all officers of the 
Treasury Department, military officers, and all others in the service of 
the United States, to turn over to the authorized officers of the Bureau 
of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, all funds collected by 
tax or otherwise, for the benefit of refugees or freedmen, or accruing 
from abandoned lands or property set apart for their use, be, and the 
same is hereby, suspended. 

ANDREW JOHNSON, 

Fresident. 



CIRCULAR AUGUST 24, 1864. 



Treasury Department, 

August 2^1, 1864 

The officers named in tlie second regulation concerning commercial 
intercourse, &c., as " to be authorized under instructions from the Sec- 
retary to permit supplies to loyal persons," &c., as therein provided, are 
hereby authorized to grant permits for the purpose indicated, as follows : 

The surveyors of customs at Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madi- 
son, Louisville, IS'ew Albany, Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quincy, and 
Saint Louis, to such jtoints in the first and second agencies as may be 
specified in the certificate of the proper local special agent, to be pre- 
sented in each case. 

Tlie surveyor of customs at Nashville, to such points in the first agency 
as may be specified in the certificate of the proper local special agent, 
to be presented in each case. 

The surveyor of customs at Memphis, and the acting surveyors at 
Helena, Vicksbiirgh, and Natchez, to such points in second agency as 
may be specified in the certificate of the proper local special agent, to 
be presented in each case. 

The surveyor of customs at Baltimore, and the collectors of customs 
at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Georgetown, Alexandria, Beaufort, 
and Port Royal, to such points in the fiftli, sixth, and seventh agencies 
as may be specified in the certificate of the proper local special agent, 
to be presented in each case. 

The collector of customs at New Orleans, to such points in the second, 
third, and fourth agencies as may be specified in the certificate of the 
lH\iper local special agent, to be presented in each case. 

Permits will only be granted by the ofdcers for the districts designated 
above, and in strict conformity with the regulations of 29th July, 1864. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



circular to collectors and other officers of the customs, 

Treasury Department, 

November 23, 1864. 

Jn pursuance of the provisions of the proclamation of the President, 
modifying the blockade of the ports of Norfolk, Fernandina, and Pen- 
sacola, and of the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury relat- 
ing to trade with those ports, no articles contraband of war will be 
permitted to enter at either of said ports, and collectors of customs 
will accordingly refuse clearance to vessels bound for those ports, or 
either of them, with any such articles on board. 

Until further instructed they will regard as contraband of war the 
following articles, viz : Cannons, mortars, fire-arms, pistols, bombs, 
grenades, firelocks, flints, matches, powder, saltpeter, balls, bullets, 
pikes, swords, sulphur, helmets or boarding-caps, sword-belts, saddles 
and bridles, (always excepting the quantity of said articles which may 
be necessary for the defense of the ship and of those who compose the 



128 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

crew,) cartridge-bag material, percussion and other caps, clothing adapt- 
ed for uniforms, rosin, sail-cloth of all kinds, hemp and cordage, masts, 
ship-timber, tar and pitch, ardent spirits, military persons in the service 
of the enemy, dispatches of the enemy, and articles of like character 
with those specially enumerated. 

They will also refuse clearances to all vessels which, whatever the 
ostensible destination, are believed, on satisfactory grounds, to be in- 
tended for ports or places in possession or under control of insurgents 
against the United States, or that there is imminent danger that the 
goods, wares, or merchandise, of whatever description, laden on such 
vessels, will fall into the possession or under the control of such insur- 
gents. And in all cases where, in their judgment, there is ground for 
any apprehension that any goods, wares, or merchandise, shipped at 
their port, will be used, in any way, for the aid of the insurgents or 
insurrection, they will require substantial security to be given that such 
goods, wares, or merchandise shall not be transported to any place 
under insurrectionary control, with or by the consent, permission, or 
connivance of the owners, shippers, carriers, or consignees thereof, 
and shall not, in any way, be used to give aid or comfort to such insur- 
gents. 

They will be especially careful upon application for clearances to 
require bonds, with sufficient sureties, conditioned for fultilling ftiith- 
fully all the conditions imposed by law or departmental regulations, 
from shippers of the following articles to the ports opened, or to any 
other ports from which they may easily be, and are probably intended 
to be, reshipped in aid of the existing insurrection, namely: Liquors of 
all kinds, other than ardent spirits, coals, iron, lead, copper, tin, brass, 
telegraphic instruments, wire, porous cups, platina, sulphuric acid, zinc, 
and all other telegraphic materials, marine engines, screw-propellers, 
paddle-wheels, cylinders, cranks, shafts, boilers, tubes for boilers, fire- 
bars, and every article or other component part of an engine or boiler, 
or any article whatever wliicli is, can, or may become applicable for 
the manufacture of marine machinery', or for the armor of vessels. 

N. B. — Persons desiring to ship to either of the ports named above 
any of the articles enumerated herein, or articles of like character, re- 
garded as contraband of war, or })rohibited by military orders, must 
make api)iication, for permission to do so, to the military officer com- 
manding the department or district embracing the port to which the 
shipment is to be made. When ai)proved by him, and also by the super- 
vising or assistant special agent of the Treasury De[)artmfent, resident 
there, the application so approved will be presented to the collector of 
the customs at the port from which the shipment is to be made, who 
will thereupon grant a clearance as requested, on the execution of the 
required bonds, &c. xind this circular will, until otherwise ordered, 
apply to all ports heretofore opened by proclamation, as well as to those 
named above. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



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AMENDED REGULATION, SERIES OF JULY 29, 1864. 

Treasury Department, January 4, 18G5. 

It having been represented to this Department that regnlation LY, 
concerning commercial intercourse, as amended December 22, 1801, is 
liable to misconstruction, and has been misconstrued as to its intent 
and meaning, it is hereby amended as follows: 

LV. All authorities issued prior to July 29, 1801, to purchase products 
in insurrectionary States are hereby revoked, except that products pur- 
chased in got)d faith under such authorities, and paid for in part or in 
whole, prior to the said 29tli day of July, 1801, may be transported to 
market as before the passage of the act of July 2, 1801, subject to the 
following limitations and conditions, and included iu the following 
classes : 

1st. Those which have been wholly paid for. 
, 2d. Those upon which part payment has been made, coupled with a 
legal obligation to pay the residue, so that the articles purchased are at 
the risk of the i)urchaser, and such payment is in nowise dependent 
upon their delivery. 

3d. Where part payment has been made, without such obligation as 
to the balance, so much of the products alleged to have been purchased 
as the amount actually advanced will pay for at the stipulated price. 

The original permits must be produced iu each case and proof fur- 
nished, to the satisfaction of a proper permit officer aud a supervising or 
assistant special agent for the agency or district iu which proof is to be 
made, that the property desired to be moved comes within one of the 
classes named above, and that the privilege conferred by the original 
permit has been in no way violated or abused — a certificate of which 
facts must be indorsed upon the permit over their official signature, 
which permit so indorsed will then be considered as revived aud iu full 
force to the extent specified iu the indorsement, iu accordance with this 
rule. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



EXECUTIVE ORDER. 

Executive Mansion, January 4, 1865. 
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, having seen and 
considered the within amended regulation, uumbered LV, i)rescribed by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, do hereby approve the same ; and I fur- 
ther declare aud order that i)roducts moving iu compliancQ with the 
said regulation shall be exemi^t from seizure and from confiscation aud 
forfeiture to the Uuited States. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

9 AC 



130 COMMERCIAL INTEBCOURSE. 



amended general regulations. 

Treasury Department, 

Ai)ril 25, 1805. 
The "General Regulations'' made by the Secretary of the Treasury 
dated rinly LM), 1804, lor the purpose of carrying into eftect the regula- 
tions of that date, and the several acts of Congress authorizing them, 
are hereby amended as follows, viz: 

I. Two additional special agencies are hereby established, distin- 
guished numerically, and respectively designated and described as 
follows : 

The eif/hth special agency comprises the State of South Carolina and 
so much of the State of Georgia as lies in and cast of the valley of the 
Ogeechee River, including the city of Savannah. 

The ninth special agency comprises the west part of Florida and so 
much of the State of Alabama as lies south of the Alabama and Missis- 
sipi)i Railroad. 

II. Tiie boundaries of the fifth special agency as defined by the 
General Regulations, series July 29, 1801, are hereby modified so that 
it comprises the south and east part of Florida, ini'luding Key West, 
and so much of the State of Georgia as lies south and west of the valley 
of the Ogeechee River. 

III. The boundaries of the third special agency, as defined by the 
General Regulations, series July 29, 1801, are hereby modified so that 
it comprises so much of the States of Louisiana and Mississippi as lies 
south of Grand Gulf, and including that place. 

IV. In addition to the duties devolved upon the general agent of the 
Treasury Department by the said regulations, he will hereafter be re- 
quired, under the direction of the Secretary, to cause the regulations 
concerning the purchase of products of insurrectionary States under the 
eighth section of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1801, to be 
l)roperl.\- observed and carried out. 

All officers and agents appointed to purchase and sell such products 
will comply with the instructions of the general agent in regard thereto 
until otherwise directed by the Secretarv of the Treasury. 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

ISecretary of the I'rcasuri/. 
Approved, April 25, 1805. 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 

Concerning commercial intercourse with and in insurrectionary States. 



executive order. 

Executive Chamber, 

Washington, April 29, 1865. 
Beiug desirous to relieve all loyal citizens and well-dis- 
posed persons residing in insurrectionary States from 
unnecessary commercial restrictions, and to encourage them 
to return to peaceful pursuits, it is hereby ordered : 

I. Til at all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and Restric 1 1 o ns on 
coastwise commercial intercourse be discontinued in such*™'!® in par's pf 

,1 1 oi , n rT\ -rx ■ • • -vT , 1 /^ i • States lat e 1 y m 

parts ot tlie States ot Tennessee, Virginm, North Carolina, rebellion, remov- 
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, '^^• 
and so much of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississippi 
River, as shall be embraced within the lines of national 
military occupation, excepting only such restrictions as are 
imposed by acts of Congress, and regulations in pursuance 
thereof, prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and 
approved by the President ; and excepting also from the 
etiect of this order the following articles contraband of war, 
to wit: arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammuni- 
tion is manufactured, gray uniforms and cloth, locomotives, 
cars, railroad-iron, and machinery for operating railroads, 
telegraph-wires, insulators, and instruments for operating 
telegraphic lines. 

II. That all existing military and naval orders in any 
manner restricting internal, domestic, and coastwise com- 
mercial intercourse and trade with or in the localities above 
named be, and the same are hereby, revoked ; and that no 
military or naval officer in any manner interrupt or inter- 
fere with the same, or with any boats or other vessels 
engaged therein, under proper authority, pursuant to the 
regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. 

AKDREW JOHNSOK 



Treasury Department, May 9, 1865. 
With a view of carrying out the purposes of the Executive, as 
expressed in his executive order, bearing date April 29, 1865, " to 
i^lieve all loyal citizens and well-disposed persons residing in insurrec- 
tionary States from unnecessary commercial restrictions, and to 
encourage them to return to peaceful iiursuits," the following regula- 
tions are prescribed, and will hereafter govern commercial intercourse 
in and between the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, 



132 COMMERCIAL intp:rcouese. 

Soiitli Cai'oliiin, Geoi';:>in, Florida, Alabama, Mississij)])!, and Louisiana 
oast of the 3Iississii)[)i lliver, beietol'oie deelaiod in insiuTcction, and 
the loyal States : 

I. All commercial transactions under these regulations shall be con- 
ducted under the supervision of officers of the customs, and others 
acting as ofhcers of the customs. 

PROHIBITED ARTICLES. 

II. The following articles are ])rohibited, and none such will be 
allowed to be transjiorted to or within any State heretofore declared in 
insurrection, except on (lovernmcjit account, viz: Arms, ammunition, 
all articles from which ammunition is manufactured, gray uniforms and 
cloth, locomotives, cai's, railroad-iron, and machinery for operating 
radroads, telegraph-wires, insnlators, and instruments for operating 
telegraph-lines. 

A:M0UNT of products allowed, and places to WHICH SUCH MAY 

BE TRANSPORTED. 

III. It having boan determined and agreed ui»r>n by the proper 
ofhcers of the War and Treasury Departments, in a(;cordance with the 
reijuirement of section 9 of the act of July 2, 1804, that the amount of 
goods required to supply the necessities of loj'al i)ersons residing in 
insurrectionary States, w'ithin the military lines of the United States 
forces, shall be an amount equal to the aggregate of the ai)plications 
therefor, and that the places to which such goods may be taken shall 
be all places within such lines that may be named in the several appli- 
cations for transportation thereto, it is therefore directed that clearance 
shall be granted, upon application, by any loyal person or party, for all 
goods and merchandise not prohibited, in sucli anu)unts, and to suck 
])laces wljich, under the revenue and collection laws of the United 
States, have been created ports of entry and delivery in the coastwise 
trade, as the applicant may desire. 

CLEARANCE. 

IV. Before any vessel shall be cleared for any port within the insur- 
rectionary States, or from one port to another tiierein,or from any such 
ports to a port in the loyal States, the master of every such vessel shall 
present to the proper otticer of customs, or other ofiicer acting as such, 
a manifest of her cargo, which manifest shall set forth the character of 
the merchandise composing said cargo, and, if showing no prohibited 
articles, shall be certified by such officer of the customs. 

ARRIVAL AND DISCHARGE OF CARGO IN AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE. 

V. On the arrival of any sucli vessel at the port of destination, it shall 
be the duty of the master thereof forthwith to present to the proper 
officer of the customs the certified manifest of her cargo; whereupon 
the officer shall cause the vessel to be discharged under his general 
sui)ervision, and if the cargo is found to corresi)ond w4th the manifest, 
a certificate to that effect shall be given to said master. 

If there shall be found on board any prohibited articles, such articles 
shall be seized and held subject to the orders of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, aiul the officer shall forthwith report to the Department all 
the facts of the case; and any such vessel arriving from any foreign 
])ort, or from any donu'stic i)ort, without a proper clearance, or with 
contraband articles on board, shall, with the cargo, be seized and lield 
as subject to coutiseatiou under the laws of the United States. 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 133 

LADINa WITHIN AND DEPARTURE FROM AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE. 

VI. Vessels iti i^orts witliiii an iiisiuTectionary State not declared by 
proclamation open to the commerce of the world shall be laden nnder 
the sn[)ervision of the proper officers of this Department, whose daty 
it shall be to require, before any articles are allowed to be shipped, sat- 
isfactory evidence that upon all merchandise so shipped the taxes and 
fees required by law and these rejiulations have been paid or secured to 
be paid, which fact, with the amount so paid, shall be certified upon the 
manifest before clearance shall be granted; and if, upon any articles so 
shipped, the fees and internal revenue taxes, or either, shall only have 
been secured to be paid, such fact shall be noted upon the manifest, and 
the proper oflicer at the port of destination of such vessel shall hold the 
goods until all such taxes and fees shall be paid according to law and 
these regulations. 

SUPPLY- STORES. 

VII. Persons desiring to keep a supjily-store at any place within an 
insurrectionary State shii>ll nnike application therefor to the nearest 
officer of the Treasury Department, which application shall set forth 
that the applicant is loyal to the Government of the United States ; and 
upon filing evidence of such loyalty a license for such supply-store shall 
forthwith be granted: atul the person to whom the license is given shall 
be authorized to purchase goods at any other supply-store within the 
insurrectionary States, or at such other point in the United States as he 
uniy select. 

The party receiving such license shall pay therefor the license fee pre- 
scribed by the interual-revenue law. 

EXCEPTED ARTICLES. 

A^ni. All articles of local production and consumption, such as fresh 
vegetables, fruits, butter, ice, eggs, fresh meat, wood, coal, &c., &c., 
may, without fee or restriction, be freely transported and sold at such 
points within an insurrectiouary State as the owner thereof may desire. 

SHIPMENT OP PRODUCTS OF AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE. 

IX. All cotton not produced by persons with their own labor, or with 
the labor of freedmen or others employed and paid by them^ must, before 
shipment to any port or place in a loyal State, be sold to and resold by 
an officer of the Government specially appointed for the purpose, under 
regulations i)rescribed by the Secretary- of the Treasury aud approved 
by the President ; and, before allowing any cotton or other product to 
be shipped, or granting clearance for any vessel, the proi)er customs 
officer, or other person acting as such, must require from the purchasing 
agent or the internal-revenue oflicer a certificate that cotton proposed 
to be shipped has been resold by him, or that twenty-five per cent, of 
the value thereof has been i)aid to such purchasing agent in money, and 
'that the cotton is thereby free from further fee or tax. If the cotton 
j)roposed to be shipped is claimed and proved to be the product of a 
person's own labor, or of freedmen or others employed and paid by 
them, the officer will require that the shipping fee of three cents per 
pound shall be paid or secured to be paid thereon. 

If any i)roduct other than cotton is offered for shipment, the certificate 
of the internal-revenue officei', that all internal taxes due thereon have 
been collected and })aid, must be produced prior to such products being 
shipped or cleared ; and if there is no internal-revenue officer, then sucli 



134 ' COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

taxes shall be collected by the customs otlicer, or he shall cause the 
same to be secured to be paid as provided in these regulations. 

INLAND TRANSPORTATION. 

X. The provisions of these regulations, necessarily modified, shall be 
considered a[)]>licable to all shipments inland to or within insurrection- 
ary iStates by any means of transportation whatsoever. 

CHARGES. 

XI. Goods not prohibited may be transported to insurrectionary 
States free. 

The charges upon all products shipped or transported from an insur- 
rectionary State, other than upon cotton, shall be the charges i)rescribed 
by the internal-revenue laws. Upon cotton, other than that purchased 
and resold by the Government, tliree cents per i)ound, which must be 
credited by the ofticer collecting, as follows, viz: two cents per pound as 
the internal tax and one cent per pound as the shipping fee. All cotton 
purchased and resold by the Government shall be allowed to be trans- 
l^orted free from all fees and taxes whatsoever. 

RECORDS TO BE KEPT. 

XII. Full and complete accounts and records must be kept, by all 
ofiQcers acting under these regulations, of their transactions under them, 
in such manner and form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of 
Customs. 

LOYALTY A REQUISITE. 

XIII. No goods shall be sold in an insurrectionary State by or to, nor 
any transaction held with, any person or persons not loyal to the Gov- 
ernment of the United States, 

Proof of loyalty must be the taking and subscribing the following 
oath, or evidence to be filed that it, or one similar in purport and mean- 
ing, has been taken, viz : 

I, , do solemnly sweai', in presence of Alnii<j;lity God, that I will hence- 
forth faithfully support, protect, aud defend the Constitution of the United States, and 
all laws made in pursuance thereto. 

FORMER REGULATIONS REVOKED. 

These regulations shall take effect and be in force on and after the 
loth day of May, 18()5, ami shall sui)ersede all other regulations and 
circulars heretofore prescribed by the Treasury Department concerning 
connnercial intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary States, all of 
which are hereby rescinded and annulled. 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



Executive Chamber, 

Washington City, May 9, 18G5. 
The foregoing rules and regulations concerning commercial intercourse 
with and in States and parts of States declared in insurrection, pre- 
scribed l)y the Secretary of the Treasury in conformity with acts of 
Congress relating thereto, having been seen and considered by me, are 
hereby approved. 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 135 



appointment of special agent to collect cotton of confeder- 
ate states. 

Treasury Department, 

May 8, 1865. 
It havings been represented to this Department that there are in the 
conuties of Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, and Noxnbee, in the State of 
Mississip[)i, hir^e qnantities of cotton pnrchased by and now held on 
account of the so-called Confederate States government, and that the 
fact of such purchase can be fully established, and the cotton identified, 
Mr. Harrison Johnston is hereby ap[)ointed an assistant special agent 
of the Treasury Department to receive and collect the same in the 
counties above named, and to forward it to agents of the De])artment at 
Memphis, or Mobile, as in his judgment is best for the interests of the 
Government. All officers and persons in the service of this or other 
Departments of the United States Government are requested to give 
him all aid and facilities in their power to enable him to carry out the 
purposes of this appointment. 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



circular instructions to officers of the customs and agents 
acting as officers of the customs. 

Treasury Department, 

May 10, 18G5. 
In the practical application of the rules and regulations concerning" 
commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States, known as the series 
of May 9, 1805, all officers acting thereunder are directed to cause as 
little annoyance as possible to parties interested in such commercial 
intercourse, and otherwise to carry out the purposes of the Executive 
in removing all the restrictions upon such commerce that the most liberal 
construction of the law will permit- 
Inasmuch as the military lines of occupation in the districts west of 
the Mississippi River have not been extended, nor the trade therewith 
affected by the proclamation of the President of April 2!), 1805, the 
regulations of July 29, 1801, are still in force, so far as applicable to the 
territory west of the Mississippi. 

By the third section of the regulations of May 9, the necessity for 
applications to this Department for permits or authority to clear goods 
for any j)art of the insurrectionary States east of the Mississippi, either 
coastwise or inland, is obviated ; and, consequently, no such permits or 
authorities will be issued. Collectors and others are directed to clear 
all goods not specifically declared contraband by the second section of 
said regulations. 

"While all such shipments must be under the supervision of an officer 
of the customs, where there are such, or other proper officer, to i)revent 
the transportation of any articles declared contraband, no permit or 
other fee will be charged, except such as ma^' be prescribed by law for 
the entrance or clearance of vessels. ' 

Where cotton, the product of an insurrectionary State, having been 
sold to and resold by a purchasing agent of the Government, is offered 
for shipment, the certificate of such i)urchasing- agent only is required. 



136 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

If the cotton so offered is claimed and proved to be tlie product of i)er- 
sons' own labor, or of freedmen or others enii)loyed and ])aid by them 
the shii)ping' fee of three cents per pound must be paid to the otticer 
under whose supervision the shipment is made. If any produ(!ts other 
than cotton are oflt'ered for shipment, the certificate of a collector of 
internal revenue that the internal taxes ])rescribed by law have been 
duly ])aid thereon must be produced, before the shipment will be allowed. 
If no such certificate is offered, in consequence of there being no internal 
revenue officer at the post or place of sliipment, the officer supervising 
the shipment must collect such internal revenue tax due thereon; or, if 
the party shipping is nnable to pay such internal revenue tax, the articles 
must be corisigned to the collector of customs at tbe port of destination 
of the vessel, and the bills of lading and the manifest of the vessel 
exhibit the fact that such interiud tax has not been ])aid; and on the 
arrival of any vessel at her port, the collector of the customs thereof 
"will require such internal tax to be paid to him before allowing the 
delivery of the articles on which such tax has accrued and become 
payable. 

Xo vessel will be allowed to unlade at any port except such as shall 
be named on her manifest as her ports of destination, without tlie 
authority of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and no goods will be deliv- 
ered at any port whatever until all such taxes are paid. 

Until the customs officers are dul^' appointed, special agents will act 
as such, and when acting in that capacity, will sign, ^^ Special agent and 
acting customs officer.^- 

Captured and abandoned property will be treated as directed in regu- 
lations of 2Dth July, 18G4. 

H. Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Trcasnri/. 



CIRCULAR LETTER 

OF 

INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICERS OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 

EELATIVE TO 

CO^niERCIAL INTERCOURSE, CAPTURED. ABANDONED, AND CON- 
FISCABLE PROPERTY, FREEDMEN, ETC. 

Treasury Department, 

June 27, 18G5. 

The various rules and regulations heretofore prescribed by the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, in regard to the above-uauied subjects, having 
been rendered nugatory in whole or in part by the changed condition of 
affairs in the Southern States and Executive orders and jn'oclamations, 
and the War Department having assumed charge of freedmen, abandoned 
lands, &c., under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 
3, 1805, tlie following instructions as to the dnties of officers of the 
Treasury Department in the premises are prescribed, and will be regarded 
as in fall force and effect immediately on the receipt thereof by any 
officer whose action is in anywise affected thereby: 

1. All restrictions on con)mercial intercourse in and with States and 
parts of States heretofore declared in insurrection, aud on the purchase, 
transportation, and sale of the products thereof, are removed; except as 
to the transportation thereto or therein of arms, ammunition, articles 
from which ammunition is made, gray uniforms, and gray cloth ; and 
except^ also, those relating to property heretofore purchased by the 
agents or captured by or surrendered to the military forces of thelTnited 
States. Nor will any fees or taxes be charged or collected except those 
imposed by the customs and internal revenue laws. And the super- 
vision necessary to prevent the shipment of the i)rohibited articles will 
be exeridsed only by the regular and ordinary officers of the customs, 
acting under the revenue laws of the United States. 

2. Subordinate officers discharging duties in regard to commercial 
intercouise, under the regulations referred to, will consider their official 
connection with this Dei)artment as terminating with the 30th instant, 
"without further notice. 

3. Agents for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States on 
Government account will close their official business, east of the Mis- 
sissippi, with the transactions of the 13th instant; and west of it, with 
the transactions of the 21th instant; returning to sellers all property 
or money received or collected since those dates, respectively, and using 
such dispatch in the premises that their connection with the Depart- 
ment may, if possible, terminate with the 30th instant. 

4. Officers of this Department charged with the duty of receiving and 
collecting, or having in theii' possession oruiuler their control captured, 
abandoned, or eontiscable personal property, will disi)ose of the same, 
in accordance with regulations on the subject heretofore prescribed, at 
the earliest time consistent with the public interests, aiul will refrain 
from receiving such from military or naval authorities after the 30th 
instant. This will not be construed, however, as interfering with the 
operations of the agents noic engaged in receiving or collecting the 



138 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE, ETC. 

property recently captured by or surrendered to tlie forces of the United 
States, wlietlier or not covered by or included in the records, &c., de- 
livered to the United States military or Treasury authorities, by rebel 
military officers or cottou-aj;ents. Tiiose so acting will continue to dis- 
charge the <luties thus imposed until such pro[)erty is all received or 
satisfactorily accounted Ibi', and until the amount so secured is shipped 
or otherwise disi)osed of under the regulations on the subject heretofore 
prescribed. And they will use all the means at their commaiul, with 
the utmost vigor, to the end that all the property so collected, captured, 
or turned over siiall be secured to the United States with the least pos- 
sible cost and delay. 

After the ;i()th instant, the duty of receiving captured and abandoned 
property not embraced in the above exception will be discharged by tiie 
usuid and regular officers of the customs, at the several places M'here 
they may be located, in accordance with regulations relating to tlie sub- 
ject ; and officers heretofore performing that duty will give them all the 
aid and information in their power to enable them to carry out the same. 

5. Officers of this Department charged with the care or supervision 
of, or having in their possession or under their control, any abandoned 
or confiscable lands, houses, and tenements, will turn them over to a 
duly authorized officer of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmeu, and Aban- 
doned Lands, so far as they may be required or demanded by the same, 
together with all moneys, books, records, and i)apers arising from or re- 
lating to the i)roperty so turned over, taking proper receipts or vouchers 
therefor. This rule will also govern the action of all agents of this 
Department connected in any way with the care of freedmen, &C., so 
far as it may be applicable. 

And all persons asking for any information in regard to the property 
so turned over, or for the release of the same, or for the release of any 
proceeds or moneys arising therefrom, will be referred to the Commis- 
sioner of llefugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, at Washington, 
to whom communications on the subject should be addressed. 

G. Officers of this Department having in their possession or under 
their control any moneys whatever arising from fees collected under the 
commercial intercourse regulations, (except those collected for the 
benefit of freedmen, which will be disposed of under section 5,) or from 
the sales of captured, abandoned, or conliscable personal property, will 
forthwith deposit the same with the nearest assistant treasurer, de^iig- 
uated depositary, or deposit bank, (keeping the amounts from the differ- 
ent sources separate,) to the credit of H. A. Kisley, esq., supervising- 
special agent, &c., taking therefor receipts in quadrupli(;ate — which re- 
ceii)ts must show whence the sums were received — one of which will be 
retained by the officer so depositi'.ig, one forthwitli sent to the Secretary 
of the Treasury, one to the Commissioner of Customs, and one to ^Ir. 
Kisley, at Washington. 

7. All officers above referred to, except proper officers of the customs, 
acting exclusively under the revenue laws, will, after they have closed 
their official business, as above directed, and sold at auction, to the 
highest bidder, the furniture and proi»erty remaining on hand, and 
accounted for the proceeds of the same, forthwith systematically arrange 
the books, records, pai)ers, &c., of their late office, that they may easily 
be referred to and examined, pack them in secure and water-proof boxes, 
and forward the same, so marked as to indicate their (contents, together 
"with their respective resignations, addressed to the Secretary of the 
Treasurv, Washington City. 

HUGH i\rcCULLOCH, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



GENERAL REGULATIONS 

For the purchase of products of the iiisurrectionary States on Government 

account. 

I. Agents shall he appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with 
the approval of the President, to purchase for the United States, under 
special instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, ])roducts of 
States declared to be in insurrection, at places hereinafter designated, 
or that may, from time to time, be designated as markets or places of 
purchase. 

II. The following places are hereby designated as such markets or 
places of purchase, to wit: New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Norfolk, 
Beaufort, N. 0., Port Eoyal, and Pensacola. 

III. Before entering upon the discharge of their duty, each of the 
agents so appointed shall execute a bond, with sureties in the prescribed 
form, in a penal sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, con- 
ditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty, aud that he shall not en- 
gage, directly or indirectly, in the purchase of products on i>rivate ac- 
count, nor be, in any way, interested in the products i)urchasedby him, 
or the proceeds or profits arising therefrom. 

IV. The price to be paid for any of the products so to be purchased 
shall be agreed upon between the seller and the purchasing agent, but 
shall in no case exceed the market value thereof at the time and place 
of purchase, nor exceed three-fourths the market value thereof in the 
city of New York, according to the latest quotations knowni to the agent 
purchasing at the date of the deliver^' of the products, less a sum equal 
to the internal-revenue tax aiul the permit fee prescribed in the regula- 
tions concerning commercial intercourse dated July 20, 1804, and also 
subject to such other deductions to cover transportation, insurance, and 
other expenses, and to such arrangements for payment, as may be pre- 
scribed in special instructions to the several purchasing agents. 

V. The proceeds of all sales made by the several agents, together with 
such funds as may be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
shall be deposited in the most convenient depository, to the credit of the 
" purchasing fund,'' to be disbursed as hereinafter directed. 

VI. Proper instructions shall be given whereby daily (juotatious and 
prices-current in New York shall be forwarded to the several agents, and 
to the collector or surveyor (as the case may be) of customs at the sev- 
eral markets or places of jjurchase, by mail, every day, or as often as 
there shall be mail communication with such agents and collectors or 
surveyors. 

VII. The purchasing agent shall, to the extent of the funds at his 
command, and in pursuance of his instructions from the Secretary of 
the Treasury as to price and terms of payment, purchase all products 
offered to him of the character or description which by such instruc- 
tions he is authorized to purchase ; but no liability of any character 
shall be authorized or assumed by any agent for or on account of Gov- 
ernment previous to the actuai delivery of the products, other than a 
stipulation, in the form hereinafter prescribed, to purchase, products 
owned or controlled by applicants, at a price to be agreed upon at the 
place and date of delivery. 



140 PRODUCTS OF THE INSURRECTIOXARY STATES. 

ATir. Wlienevor any person shall make appli(!ation to the purclia.sing 
agent, in writing, setting fortii that he owns or controls prodncts, stat- 
ing the kind, (piantity, and location thereof, or the date at which they 
will be delivered at some specified location accessible to transportation, 
the pnn'hasing agent, it anthorized by special instrnctions to purchase 
snch produ(;ts, shall give a certificate that such ap[)lication has been 
made, and request safe conduct for such party, with the necessary trans- 
portation, to the locations specified, and for himself and i)roducts in 
tyansifu from the points named to such purchasing agent. (See Form No. 
1, appended to these regulations.) 

IX. Parties having sold and delivered products shall, upon their re- 
quest, be furnished by the purchasing agent with a (;ertificate of the 
facts, Avlii(;h certificate shall state the character and quantity of the ar- 
ticles purcHiased, the price i^aid therefor, the aggregate amount of pay- 
ment, the place whence and the route by which it was transported. (See 
Form No. 1*, ai»pended to these regulations.) 

X. All bills or invoices of [»urchase shall be made in triplicate, after 
the ])roducts purchased shall have been actually delivered to the pur- 
chasing agent, their weight, quantity, and rating ascertained and de- 
termined by sworn weighers, measurers, or exj)erts ; and such bills or 
invoices shall be certified thereon as to their correctness by such sworn 
weigher, measurer, or expert, and the whole, as to prices and other stip- 
ulations expressed therein, (jertitied by the purchasing agent, together 
with the date of the latest New York quotations known to the agent at 
time of the purchase. 

The products, with such triplicate bills or invoices, shall then be de- 
livered to the collector or surveyor of customs at the place of deliver}', 
who, on satisfying himself of their correctness, and that the products 
correspond with the stateujent set forth in the bills or invoices, shall in- 
dorse thereon, over his own signature, a certificate of the facts, which 
certificate shall authorize i)ayment of the bills to be made by such de- 
positary or other disbursing agent, at such time and in such manner as 
shall have been agreed upon in wiiting between the purchasing agent 
and seller, taking care to authorize i^ayment at a date sufficiently remote 
to be certain the proceeds therefrom may be realized, and such bills, 
duly receipted, shall be paid by the depositary or disbursing agent 
named in the certificate as therein stipulated. One of the triplicates so 
pai<l shall be immediately transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury 
by the disbursing officer, one retained by him, and the other transmitted 
to the First Auditor, with his monthly accounts, for settlement. 

Xr. Purchasingagents shall keep a full and accurate record of all their 
transactions, including the names of all persons from whom they make 
purchases, the date of the purchase, a description of the products pur- 
chased, the quantity thereof, specifying the number and character 
(whether bundles, boxes, hogsheads, or bales) of packages, and their 
weight if in jyounds, or gallons if in licpiids, &c., and their quantity, as 
ascertained and certified to by sworn experts, weighers, &c. A tran- 
script of this record will be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury 
on the first day of each month. 

XII. Sales of products so purchased may be made weekly at public 
auction, to the highest bidder, after due notice, at Memphis and New 
Orleans, and other places hereafter designated by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, not exceeding in quantity one-fifth of tlie amount received 
during the previous week, unless in the opinion of the purchasing and 
disbursing agent and the collector or surveyor, as the case may be, the 
condition of the purchasing fund shall require larger sales than one- 



PRODUCTS OF THE INSURRECTIONARY STATES. 141 

fifth; tbeu sales of sncli furtlier quantities as tbeyniay deterniiue to be 
necessary are bereby authorized, but in no case in sucli amounts as un- 
duly to affect tbe market. Sucb additional sales and tbe reason tberefor 
must be promptly reported to tbe Secretary of tbe Treasury. 

XIII. Tbe sales berein authorized shall be made by or under tbe di- 
rection or sui)ervision of tbe ])iircbasing agent, or an agent specially 
authorized by the Secretary, and all products so sold shall be delivered 
by tbe collector or surveyor (as tbe case may be) to the parties purchas- 
ing them upon the presentation to him of the bill of sale, certitied by 
the agent, designating the lot, character, and quantity of the i)ro- 
ducts sold and the price and tbe amount to be paid therefor, together 
with a certificate from tbe de))ositary tbat the proceeds of sucb sale have 
been duly dei)0sited witii him, and tbe products so sold sball be allowed 
transportation to any desired ])ort or place in a loyal State,' free from 
tbe payment of any taxes or fees other than such as have been i)aid 
under regulation lY. 

XIV. Any ])erson bringing products for sale to tbe purchasing agent, 
desiring to purchase and transport tbe same to a loyal State, may give 
notice thereof at the time of making sale to tbe i)urcbasing agent; and 
tbe agent may, after tbey have been rated, weighed, &c., as pro.vided 
above, sell and dispose of such products to the party applying at prices 
not less than the market rates at the place of purchase, nor less than 
the last quotations from Xew York known to tbe purchasing agent at 
the date of the transaction, from which shall be deducted a sum equal 
to tbe reduction of piircbase price which may have been made by tbe 
agent to cover transportation and otber expenses. 

Tbe products so sold sball not be resold, eitber at public or private 
sale, until after the trans()ortation to a loyal State or to a foreign port, 
and shall be liable to forfeiture for breach of this regulation. All prod- 
ucts purchased by purchasing agents, the sale of which is not provided 
for in tbese regulations, shall be disposed of in sucb manner as may be 
directed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

XV. All products of insurrectionary States which the purchasing 
agent is authorized by his instructions to purchase, moving with or 
without a i)ermit, sball, on arrival at a place where there is a purchas- 
ing agent, be sold and delivered to him, except cai)tured and abandoned 
l)roperty, and su(;b as may have been produced within the lines of 
actual occupation by the military forces of tbe United States by the 
labor of the person transporting, or of freednien or others employed and 
paid by him pursuant to rules relating thereto established under proper 
authority ; or sucb as were purchased under proper authority prior to 
July 2, 1804, and were being transported in conformity with tbe regula- 
tions of the Secretarv of the Treasury. 

VV. P. FESSENDEX, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
Washington, D. C, Septemler 24, 1864. 



Executive Mansion, 

September 24, 18G4. 
The foregoing rules and regulations of tbe Secretary of the Treasury, 
having been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved. 

ABKAHAM LIXCOLX. 



142 PRODUCTS OF THE INSURRECTIONARY STATES. 

Form No. 1. 

I, A B , agent for tlio purchase of products of insurrectionary States ou 

behalf of the Government of the United iStates at , do hereby certify 

that I have ayreed to purchase from C D , of , ; 

which products, it is represented, arc, or will be, at , in the county of 

, in the State of ,on the day of , 186.., 

and which he sti])ulates shall be delivered to me, nuless prevented from so doing by the 
authority of the ITnited States. 

I therefore request safe conduct for the said C D , and his means of trans- 
portation, and said products, from to , wliere the products 

so transported are to be sold and delivered to me, under the stipulation referred to 
above, and pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretarj^ of the Treasury. 

A B . 

Form No. 2. 

I, A -B , agent for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States on 

behalf of the Government of the United States at , do hereby certify that 

I have purchased of C D , of , of 

at $ per , and that there has been pixid him, for the same, $ , 

and that the said was transported from by way of 

A^: B . 



EXECUTIVE ORDER RELATIVE TO THE PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS OF 
INSURRECTIONARY STATES. 

Executive Mansion, 

September 24, 18G4. 

I. Congress having authorized the purcha.se for the United States of 
the product of States declared in insurrection, and tlie Secretary of the 
Treasury liaving designated ]S"e\v Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Pen.sa- 
cola, Port Royal, Beaufort, N^. C, and Norfolk, as places of purchase, 
and Avith my approval appointed agents, and made regulations under 
which said products may be i)urchased : Therefore, 

II. All persons, except such as may be in the civil, military, or naval 
.service of the Government, having in their possession any products of 
States declared in insurrection which said agents are authorized to 
IJurcha.se, and all persons owning or controlling such products therein, 
are authorized to convey such })rodu(*ts to eitlier of the places which 
have been hereby, or may hereafter be, designated as places of pur- 
chase, and such products so destined shall not be liable to detention, 
seizure, or forfeiture while in transitu or in store awaiting transporta- 
tion. 

JII. Any person having the certificate of a purchasing agent, as pre- 
scribed by Treasury- Regulations VIII, is authorized to pass, with the 
necessary means of transportation, to the points named in said certifi- 
cate, and to return therefrom with the products required for the fulfill- 
ment of the stipulations set forth in said certificate. 

IV. Any person having sold and delivered to a purchasing agent any 
products of an insurrectionary State, in accordance with the regula- 
tions in relation thereto, and having in his possession a certificate 
setting forth the fact of such purcha.se and sale, the character and 
quantity of products, and the aggregate amount paid therefor, as pre- 
scribed by regulation IX, shall be permitted by the military authority 
conunanding at the place of sale to purchase from any authorized dealer 
at such place, or any other place in a loyal State, merchandise and 
other articles not contraband of war, nor prohibited by the order of the 
War Department, nor coin, bullion, or foreign exchange, to an amount 
not exceeding iu value one-third of the aggregate value of the products 



PRODUCTS OF THE INSURRECTIONARY STATES. 143 

sold l)y liim, as certified by the ageut purchasiug; aud the merchandise 
and other articles so iiorc'hased may be transported by the same route 
and to the same place from and by which the products sold and de- 
livered reached the purchasing agent, as set forth in the certificate; 
and such merchandise and other articles shall have safe conduct, aud 
shall not be subject to detention, seizure, or forfeiture while being trans- 
ported to the places and by the route set forth in the said certificate. 

V. Generals commanding military districts and commandants of mili- 
tary posts aud detach uients, and oflicers commanding fleets, flotillas, 
and gun boats, will give safe conduct to persons and products, merchan- 
dise, aud other articles duly authorized as aforesaid, and not contraband 
of war, or prohibited by order of the War Department, or the orders of 
such generals commanding, or other duly authorized military or naval 
otiicer, made in i)ursuance thereof; aud all persons hindering or pre- 
venting such safe couducl of persons or property will be deemed guilty 
of a military offense, aud punished accordingly. 

VI. Any person transporting or attempting to transport any mer- 
chandise or other articles, except in pursuance of regulations of the 
Secretary of the Treasury dated July 29, 1804, or in pursuance of this 
order, or transporting or attempting to transport any merchandise or 
other articles contraband of war, or forbidden by any order of the War 
Department, will be deemed guilty of a military oft'ense, and punished 
accordiugly; and all products of insurrectiouary States found in trans- 
itu to any 'other person or place thau a purchasing ageut and a desig- 
nated place of purchase shall be seized and forfeited to the United 
States, except such as may be moving to a loyal State umler duly au- 
thorized permits of a pioper officer of the Treasury Department, as pre- 
scribed by regulation XXXVIII, coucerniug "commercial iutercourse," 
dated July 21), ISGi, or such as may have been found abandoned, or 
have been ca^jtured, and are moving in pursuance of the act of March 
12, 18G3. 

VII. Xo military or naval officer of the United States, or person in 
the military or naval service, nor any civil officer, except such as are 
appointed for that purpose, shall engage in trade or traffic iu the prod- 
ucts of insurrectionary States, or furnish transportation therefor, under 
pain of being deeiued guilty of unlawful trading with the euemy, aud 
[)uuished accordiugly. 

VIII. The Secretary of War will make such general orders or regula- 
tions as will insure the proper observance and execution of this order; 
and the Secretary of the Navy will give Instructious to officers com- 
manding fleets, flotillas, and gun-boats iu conformity therewith. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



[General Orders No. 285.] 

War Department, 
Washington City, October 6, 1864. 

First. The attention of ofificersand soldiers of the Army of the United 
States, whether volunteer or regular, is directed to the Executive order 
dated September 24, 1864, aud they will in all respects observe the same, 
and the commanders of all military .departments, districts, posts, and 
detachments will, upon the receipt of this order, revoke all other orders 
within their respective commands conflictiug or inconsistent therewith, 
and will make such orders as will insure strict observance of this order 
throughout their respective commands. 

Second. All commanders of military departments, districts, posts, and 



144 * PRODUCTS OF THE INSURRECTIONARY STATES. 

detaclinieiitiS will i-ender such aid to the officers and afteiits of the Treas- 
ury Department in carrying out the provisions of said order, and the 
Treasury regulations therein referred to, as can be given -without preju- 
dice to the military service. 

Third. Officers of the quartermaster's department, upon written ap- 
plication of the duly authorized agents of the Treasury J)epartment, or 
of i)ersons authorized by them, may furnish transportation, by land or 
Avater, for collecting ami forwarding to market articles of i)rodnce within 
the insurrectionary States specilied within the aforesaid order, upon 
such reasonable terms as may be prescribed by the Quartermaster Gen- 
eral, where the same can be done without prejudice to the military ser- 
vice, and not otherwise. The api)lication for transportatiou must be 
first approved by the commander of the department, district, i)ost, or 
detachment wherein the articles are received. 

By order of the Secretary of War : 

E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 



[General Older No. 42.] 

Navy Department, 

Washin!)t(>)i, Dccemher 1, ISOl. 
The attention of the commanding officers of squadrons, flotillas, and 
vessels of the Navy employed on blockade <luty, or in the Mississippi 
Kiver or other inland waters in the vicinity of the insurrectionary States, 
is re(j[uired to the Executive order hereto annexed, dated September 24, 
1804, and they will adopt such measures as may be necessary to insure 
the strict observance of the order by those under their command. 

The forms of certificates referred to in paragraphs 111 and IV of the 
Executive order are also annexed hereto. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary of the Navy. 



Treasury Department, 

February G, 18G5. 

The port of Fernandina, in the State of Florida, is hereby designated 
as a place for the ])urchase of products of insurrectionary States on Gov- 
ernment account, in accordance with the provisions of the 8th section 
of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1804. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 

Executive Mansion, 

February 6, 1866. 
Approved : 

ABKAHAM LINCOLN. 



amended regulation IV. 



Treasury" Department, 

March 30, 1865. 

Begulation IV of the " General Eegulatioiis for the purchase of prod- 
ucts of insurrectionary States on Government account," dated Septem- 
ber 24, 1804, is hereby amended as follows: 

IV. The price to be paid for any of the products so purchased shall 



PRODUCTS OF THE INSURRECTIONARY STATES. 145 

not exceed the market value thereof at the phice of delivery, nor exceed 
three-fourths of the market value thereof in the city of New York at the 
latest quotation known to the agent purchasing at the date of delivery 
of the products, after deducting from such market value : 1st. The in- 
ternal revenue tax of two cents per pound ; 2d. The transportation per- 
mit fee of four cents per pound ; and 3d. An amount sufficient to cover 
all actual and estimated expenses of handling, storing, insurance, trans- 
portation, commission on sales, &c. Such estimated expenses in no 
case to exceed an amount for which private parties can secure the per- 
formance of tlie same service. 

IT. MciCULLOCH, 

Secret a ri/ of the Treasxry. 



Executive Mansion. 
The foregoing amended regulation, having been seen and considered 
by me, is herebv ap})roved. 

ABRAHAM LINCOL^N^. 



amended general regulations. 

Treasury Department, 

April 26, 1865. 
The " Ueneral Kcgulations for the purchase of products of the insur- 
rectionary States on Government account," dated and approved by the 
President September 21, 1861, are hereby amended by adding thereto 
the provisions following, viz : 

I. When a purchasing agent shall receive a proposal from any person 
owning or controlling products in an insurrectionary State, to sell the 
same to the United States uijon condition that a portion thereof shall be 
resold to him by such agent, the agent may purchase them subject to 
that condition. And in such cases a contract shall be made, providing 
that upon receipt of the products or any part thereof, three-fourths of 
the same will be resold to him for the same sum paid for the whole. In 
such cases the products shall be graded under the direction of the pur- 
chasing agent, and the three-fourths so resold shall be an average grade 
of the whole. 

II. All contracts made by purchasing agents shall be in writing, in 
the forms directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall be signed 
by the purchasing agent and the seller, and a coi)y of each contract 
forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

III. All agents are prohibited from purchasing products in insurrec- 
tionary States which shall have beeu captured by the military or naval 
forces of the United States, or which shall have been abandoned by the 
lawful owner thereof. 

IV. No pu7xhase or sale of products shall be made except in compli- 
ance with the special instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury to 
the agent making the same. 

Y. When a purchasing agent has received products purchased under 
regulation I above, he shall take from the seller triplicate receipted 
lulls of sale, specifying the date of the contract under which they are 
received, the date of receipt, the kind, quantity, marks, and other de- 
scription thereof, and the price received therefor ; and upon resale and 
delivery of the three-fourths resold under the contract, he will make 
10 A c 



146 PRODUCTS OF THE INSURRECTIONARY STATES. 

triplicate receipted bills of sale to the purchaser, embracing the same 
details. 

VI. Products sold by purchasing agents shall be subject to payment 
by the purchaser of the same internal revenue tax as if they had not 
been sold for account of the United States. l>ut the fees prescribed by 
regulation XLVI, concerning commercial intercourse, series July 29, 
1804, shall not be required on permitting the shipment to a loyal State 
of ])roducts so sold. The collector or surveyor, acting at any port in an 
insurrectionary State where such products are situated, shall permit 
their shipment thence to any [)ort in a loyal State where the owner may 
desire to send them. 

IT. Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



The foregoing rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury 
having been seen and considered by me, are herebv a])proved. 

ANDKEW JOHNSON. 
Dated Washing ton, Ainil 25, 18(55. 



AMENDED REGULATIONS FOR THE PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS OF THE 
INSURRECTIONARY STATES ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT. 

TREASURY' Department, Maij 0, 18G5. 

I. Agents shall be appointed hj the Secretary of the Treasury, with 
the approval of the President, to purchase for the United States, under 
special instructions from the Se(;retary of the Treasury, products of 
•States declared to be in insurrection, at such places as may froiu time 
to time be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as markets or 
phTces of ptirchase. 

Agents heretofore appointed for the places designated under previous 
regulations will continue their agencies as if appointed under these reg- 
ulations, 

II. Before entering npon the discharge of his duty, each of the agents 
so appointed shall execute a bond, with sureties in the prescribed form, 
in a penal sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned 
for the faithful discharge of his duty, and that he shall not engage, 
directly or indirectly, in the i)urchase of products on piivate account, 
nor be in any way inteiested in the products purchased by him, or the 
proceeds or proiits arising therefioin. 

in. The operations of ]turchasing agents shall be contined to the sin- 
gle article of cotton ; and they shall give public notice at the place to 
which they may be assigned that they ^vill purchase, in accordance with 
these regnliitions, all cotton not ca])tured or abandoned which may be 
brought to them. 

IV. To meet the requirements of the 8th section of the act of July 2, 
1SG4. the agents shall jcccive all cotton so brought, and forthwith return 
to the seller three-lonrths tliereof, -\\hieh ])()rlion shall be an average 
grade of the whole, according to the certificate of a sworn expert or 
sam|)ler. 

V. All cotton purdiased and resohl by purchasing agents shall be 
exempt from all fees and all internal taxes. And the agent selling 
•shall mark the same " free," and furnish to the purchaser a bill of sale 



PRODUCTS OP Tlia ITSURRECTIONARY STATES. 147 

clearly and accurately describuig- the character and quantity sold, and 
coutainiug a certificate that it is exempt from taxes and fees, as above. 

VI. Purchasing agents shall keep a full and accurate record of all 
their transactions, incUuUng the names of all persons from whom they 
make purchases, the date of purchase, a description of the cotton pur- 
chased by them, and the quantity and quality thereof, also of the one- 
quarter retained by them. A transcript of this record will bo transmit- 
ted to the Secretary of the Treasury on the first day of each month. 

VII. Sales of the cotton retained by the purchasing agents under reg- 
ulation IV, as the difterence between three-fourths the market price and 
the full price thereof in the city of New York, may be made by such 
agents at such places and times and in such manner as may be directed 
in special instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury. Where such 
sales are not so authorized, the agents shall, without delay, ship it to 
New York, on the best terms possible, consigned, until otherwise di- 
rected, to S. Draper, cotton-agent and disbursing officer at that place. 
Bills of lading in triplicate for such shipment must be taken, one of 
which shall be sent to the agent at New York, one to the Secretary of 
the Treasury, and one retained by the purchasing agent. 

VIII. Prior to the close of each month, and in sufficient time for the 
necessary action, the purchasing agent shall prepare and forward to the 
Comuiissioner of Customs a full estiaiate of the probable expenses of his 
office for the month next ensuing, the amount of which, together with 
any sum found due from inadequacy of former estimate, or less so much 
as UKiy remain unexpended from any amount i^reviously sent, will be 
transmitted to said purchasing agent. Purchasing agents will require 
receipts in triplicate for all moneys paid by them, one of which receipts 
shall be forwarded to the disbursing officer, one to the First Auditor 
of the Treasury, with his accounts, and one retained by the agent. 

IX. All agents are prohibited from purchasing any product of an in- 
surrectionary State which shall have been captured by the military or 
naval forces of the United States, or which shall have been abandoned 
by the lawful owner thereof. 

X. These regulations, which are intended to revoke and annul all 
others on the subject heretofore made, will take effect and be in force 
on and after May 10, 1805. 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

ISccretar}) of the Treasury. 

Executive Chamber, 

Washington City, May 9, I860. 
Approved : 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 



INSTRUCTIONS 

CONCERNING TIIIC 

COLLECTION OF CAPTURED, ABANDONED, AND SUKRENDERED PROPERTY, 
ISSUED SUBSEQUENT TO JUNE 30, 18(55. 



circular to supervising and assistant special agents. 

Treasury Depart]ment, 

July 22, 18G5. 

It has couic to the kuowledgeofthis Department that large contracts 
have been made by some of its agents Mith various persons for the col- 
lection ot abandoned or captured or surrendered cotton, authority being 
generally or in many instances given to the contractors to discover and. 
collect all such cotton within a certain district. AVhile such contracts 
have been, to some extent, contemplated or authorized by i^revious 
regulations, such action now is not in conformity with the spirit or in- 
tention of the Executive proclamation relating to the subject ; and if 
any contracts of that character have been made by you, operations 
under them should be suspended and closed up at once. 

Where agents have not adequate facilities for these purposes at their 
own command, and the public interest would be prejudiced bj' delay, no 
objection exists to the making by them of contracts with reputable and 
responsible persons, on reasonable and proper terms, for the collection, 
putting in order, and transportation to points accessible for shipment 
by rail or water, of certain specific lots of cotton known to the agent, 
the locality, quantity, and description of whicli should be fully and 
accurately stated in each case ; but, in view of the manifest evils likely 
to result from such steps, no arrangement will be sanctioned which con- 
templates the scouring of any given portions of the country for property 
of the character herein referred to by persons wlio are not bonded 
' officers of this Department. 

As stated above, any existing contract, heretofore made by you, not 
in conformity with the spirit of these instructions, must be at once 
modified or closed u]), and your future action shaped accordingly. 
Kespectfullv, 

H. McCULLOCII, 

ScoTtari/ of the Treanury. 



TrEASIRY 1 )EPARTMENT, 

August 4, 18C5. 
Sir: It is expected that you will collect all cotton, noted on the 
records of the rebel agents asbelonging to the so-called confederate gov- 
ernment, and leave all claims thereto to be decided by the Court of 
Claims, as the law directs. 
Respectfully, 

H. Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
Harrison Johnston, Esq., 

Assistant Sjyecial Agent, Columhus, Mississippi. 



captured, abandoned, and surrendered property. 149 

circular. 

Treasury Department, 

Atfgiist 12, 1805. 
To Supervising and A.s.sistant /Special Agents : 

For tlie more expeditious collectiou of cai)ture(l, abautloned, and 
surrendered Government property, the limits of the first special agency 
as described in the Treasury regulations, series of July 21), 1801, are 
hereby extended so as to comprise all tbat part of the State of Georgia 
lying north and west of the counties of Early, Calhoun, Dougherty, 
Worth, Dooly, Pulaski, Laurens, Johnson, Jefferson, and Kichmond, 
together with the counties herein named; also, all that part of the 
State of Alabama, lying north of the counties of Sumter, Marengo, 
Dallas, Lowndes, JVIontgomery, Macon, and Russell, together with the 
counties herein named. 

All Treasury agents within tlie described territory will be subordinate 
to and receive instructions from Joseph 11. Dillin, supervising special 
agent, first special agency; it being understood that Mr. Dillin shall not 
interfere with any cotton therein already collected under authority 
of other supervising special agents. 

H. Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



RULES GOVERNING THE COLLECTION OF CAPTURED COTTON. 

Treasury Department, 

August IS, 18G5. 

The irregularities, confusion, and conflict growing out of the collec- 
tion and movement of captured cotton without an organized system of 
action governing the whole subject, renders an immediate reform 
necessary. I have therefore determined to establish the following 
rules, governing the first, second, third, fourth, eighth, and ninth 
agencies : 

1st. All requirements of the regulations concerning captured and 
abandoned iiersonal i)roperty, series of July 20, 1864, .will be strictly 
observed b}- all agents engaged in collecting and forwarding captured 
cotton, except as hereinafter modified. 

2d. Each agent appointed by me to collect captured cotton will, as 
soon as practicable after receipt hereof, report in person to the super- 
vising agent of the agency in which he is operating for assignment to 
duty, and will be directed by him in all his oificial action. 

3d. All instructions from this Department to assistant agents will 
be given only through the proper supervising agents. 

4th. Supervising agents are hereby authorized to make provisional 
appointments of assistant agents to collect captured cotton in all cases 
where the public interests will be promoted thereby, subject to my 
approval. 

ijth. Each assistant agent will make all shipments of cotton collected 
by him to such supervising agent as he shall be directed to forward to 
by the supervising agent assigning him to duty, and he will take dupli- 
cate receipts for each lot from the supervising agent to whom the same 
is shipped, one of which he will retain and the other he will forward to 
me. Supervising agents will in all cases forward or cause to be for- 
warded to market all cotton collected, by the most expeditious and 
economical route from the point of collectiou. 

6th. Supervising agents will not collect directly nor make any contract 
for collecting, but will receive and forward to Simeon Draper, cotton- 



150 CAPTURED, ABANDONED, AND SURRENDERED PROPERTY. 

agent, New York, until otherwise ordered, all that shall be sent to 
tlieui by assistant agents, and will give duplicate receipts for each lot, 
as above indicated. 

7th. Each assistant agent will be assigned to duty in a well defined 
district by the proper supervising agent, and will therein make con- 
tracts, in all cases where it can be done, with the [)latiter or other person 
in Avhose custody tlie captured cotton shall be found, to prepare in 
proper packages and condition for transportation, and deliver the same 
at such place of shipment as shall be agreed upon. 

The terms of these contracts, when made with planters having cus- 
tody of the cotton, should be sufliciently liberal to insure fair compen- 
sation to them, and to encourage good feeling on their part. Each 
contract innst be made in writing, and be for tlie delivery of a specific 
lot at a designated place, and be made subject to the approval of the 
supervising agent under whom he is acting. Compensation must be 
made under such contracts out of the cotton delivered ui)on thetu, and 
must be made only by the supervising agent who receives the cotton. 

8th. In any case where cotton or other i)roperty is moving in the 
hands of private parties which a supervising agent has satisfactory 
reason to believe was cai)tured from the latt; so-called confederate gov- 
ernment, and has been stolen or otherwisa wrongfully taken, he will 
detain the same and examine fully into the case, and if he shall be 
satisfied by the iiroofs submitted that the property was so captured, 
then he shall seize and forward it as captured property; but if he shall 
be satisfied that it was not so captured, then he will release it to the 
party from whom it was taken. Agents shall make a full report to this ^ 
Department of each case, inchuling the testimony. An assistant agent 
will in no case make a seizure of property moving in the hands of 
private parties, but will inform the proper supervising agent of any 
facts within his knowledge to show that it has been stolen or otherwise 
improperly taken ; and in case such information results in the seizure 
and detention ot such property, it shall be regarded as collected by the 
agent giving such informalion. 

0th. Agency lines will be regarded as heretofore established by the 
regulations, except wlien the same are changed by tiie, or as herein- 
after provided, and each supervising agent will confine his action to 
the agency for which he is appointed, and each assistant agent will 
confine his action to the district to which he is assigned by the super- 
vising agent. 

10th. All supervising and other agents engaged in collecting and 
forwarding captured cotton will be subject to the direction and control 
of the general agent, who is hereby authorized and directed, in cases 
where he shall think the public interests require it, to suspend the 
official action of any supervising or other agent, and temporarily to 
appoint another to perform his duties ; to revoke any contract im- 
properly made or being improperly executed; to change the lines of 
agencies, and generally to do, pursuant to the regulations and these 
instructions, what he shall regard as best for the public interest in the 
premises, subject to the a^iproval of the Department. 

It is expected, unless under special circumstances to be determined 
by the supervising agent, that no more territory will be embraced 
within a district than the assistant agent assigned to duty in it will be 
able to attend to personally without the appointment of sub-agents. 

It is also expected that each supervising agent will keep moving 
throughout the agency under his charge, i)ersonally observing and 
directing the operations of the assistants by him assigned to duty 
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It is desired that the ca])tured cotton be secured and forwarded as 
expeditiously as possible, and that in doing- it private interests shall be 
interfered with as little as possible. 

All cotton so collected will, until otherwise directed, be forwarded to 
Simeon Draper, cotton-agent. New York, and the supervising agent 
forwarding the same will accompany each shipment with a statement 
to the cotton-agent, describing each 'lot making up suck shipment, the 
marks thereof, and the name of the assistant agent who collected it. 

All money required by the supervising agents to defray necessary 
expenses in collecting will be sent upon their estimates therefor, made 
to me on the first of each month. 

H. Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



Treasure Department, 

September 27, 1865. 

Sir: Application is frequently made to me for the suspension of pro- 
ceedings in relation to or the restoration of cotton (;laimed as the property 
of certain corporations or organizations entitled, "Exporting and Im- 
porting" companies, or similarly named, heretofore existing in the late 
so-called Confederate States. I have so far declined to act as requested 
in any of these cases, but the frequency of the applications, and the 
magnitude of the interests involved, seem to render necessary some gen- 
eral rule for the government of agents in the premises. 

From the titles, as well as from what is known of the operations of 
these companies, it is evident that they were mere auxiliaries to the so- 
called confederate government in its efforts to subvert and overthrow 
the Government of the United States, and that the property owned by 
them was used and intended to be used for that purpose, though indi- 
vidual gain amy in some instances or to some extent have actuated 
their managers. From the very nature of things, and the circumstances 
by which they were surrounded, that must have been the prime object 
of their existence. 

Whenever, therefore, any property, owned or claimed by one of these 
blockade-running companies, is found within your agency, you will take 
charge of and treat it as projierty which was used to aid the rebellion, and 
therefore belonging to the United States by the right of capture, keep- 
ing in all cases the record required by regulation IV, series of July 29, 
1801, concerning- captured and abandoned property. 

This is intended to apply only to such property of the class named as 
may have been collected and kept together as the property of such com- 
panies, and is not intended to authorize agents to search for on different 
plantations, and to seize small and scattered lots said to have been pur- 
chased for or by such companies, but which has not been collected by 
them in distinctive lots, and so held. 

As operations under this letter are limited to large lots collected to- 
gether, it is manifest that their shipment would be attended with but 
little expense, and contracts for the collection and transportation of such 
cotton should not be made with private parties as are authorized in other 
cases. 

The President relies upon you to discharge this duty so as to fully 
protect the interests of Government without violating or prejudicing 
private rights, and exj^ects you to give it your personal attention, 
liespectfullv, 

H. Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



152 CAPTURED, ABANDONED, AND SURRENDERED PROPERTY. 

TREASriil DePAJITMEN'J', 

Octohcr 20, 1805. 

Sir: I liave received your letter of the lOth instant, calling- my atten- 
tion to the subject of collecting- cotton wliicli was subscribed to what 
was known as the " Produce Loan of the Confederate States," and giviug' 
lue your general views in relation to it. 

The Department does uot concur fullj' iuthe views entertained by you. 
The rule it has adopted is, that where the descriptive lists of property 
owned by the late so-called Confederate States, captured from or sur- 
reiulered by its military or civil agents, show property owned or con- 
trolled b,y it, such property, if found as stated, should be collected and 
forwarded by agents of this Department, leaving all questions of right, 
title, or value of consideration received, to be adjusted by the Court of 
Claims, to which claimants of said property are referred by the act of 
Congress on the subject. The same rule will be regarded as also apply- 
ing to any property which had been owned or controlled by the late so- 
called Confederate States government, or whicli was used, or intended 
to be used by that organization, or by an organization of private indi- 
viduals co-operating with it for the i)urpose of carrying ou war agaiust, 
or overthrowing the Governmeut of the United States, even though such 
l)roperty may not have been included in or covered by the descriptive 
lists above referred to. In taking charge of property of this class great 
care and discretion should be used by agents, to the end that the rights 
of individuals be not interfered with, or the property of unoffending- 
persons taken from them. 
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Very respectfully, 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

tScvretarii of the Treasury. 
Joseph K. Dillin, Esq., 

Supervising Special Agent. 



Treasury Department, 

Noremlter 21, 1865. 

To all Supervising Special Agents: 

For the information and government of officers of the Treasury De- 
]>artment connected with the <'ollection of captured and abandoned 
proi)erty, the following rules are prescribed, and will b(; promptly and 
t'ully carried out : 

1. Hereafter no cotton claimed or recorded by the late so-called Con- 
federate States government as " tithe cotton " or taxes, and which has uot 
been delivered to it or its agents, but remains in the hands of the person 
assessed, will be taken or collected as captured i)roperty. 

2. In no case can the title given by or derived from the late so-called 
Confederate States government be regarded as valid by ofticers of this 
Department; and cotton in the possession of, or claimed by persons 
under any sale or transfer made by such government will be treated as 
cai)tured property, belonging to the United States. 

.'{. In cases where cottoji formerly belonging to the so-called confed- 
erate government has been i)urchased, and is held by persons alleging 
that the same was purchased for the ])uri>ose of delivering it to agents 
of this Department authorized to purchase the i)roducts of insurrec- 
tionary States on Government accouiit, in pursinmce of contracts made 



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with such agents, it will be taken by agents of this Department, and 
treated as captured propertj^ 

Persons claiming such property will be advised that, upon presenting 
to the Secretary of the Treasury any claims they may have in the 
premises, contracts made by them with the purchasing agents will be 
respected, and parties who have acted in good faith in the execution of 
such contracts will be protected. 

4. Hereafter agents forwarding captured cotton will take measures to 
insure tlie same while in their possession or in transit from the place of 
shipment to jSTew York, being careful to make such insurance in reliable 
companies, and on the most favorable terms possible to Government. 

5. In cases where agents have been appointed since the 18th of August 
last, or shall be liereafter appointed, tlie commissions of such new agents 
shall not extend to cotton collected and stored by their predecessors. 

Supervising special agents will see that these instructions are at once 
communicated to all persons acting under and with them, and strictly 
complied with. 

H. Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



Treasury Department, 

January 23, 1866. 

Sir : I have received your letter of the 9th instant, relative to my 
telegram of the 8th, directing that "ail cotton voluntarily subscribed" 
(to the so-styled Confederate States government) "should be collected 
wherever found," and note your inquiries and suggestions on the sub- 
ject. 

In the view of the matter taken by the Department, it is held that 
the act of a person in selling or subscribing property to the insurgent 
organization is a dedication of it to the purposes of the rebellion, to be 
used in subverting and overthrowing the lawfully constituted Govern- 
ment, whereby it is forfeited thereto, and the title lost to the person so 
selling or subscribing ; and it is not considered that any subsequent pay- 
ment of money in satisfaction of such a subscription of property will re- 
move the taint or forfeiture so attaching. The property itself is offend- 
ing, and should be taken wherever found. 

The United States does not base its claim to sach property as the 
assignee or snccessor-in-law of the so-styled Confederate States govern- 
ment. In fact, this Government denies that that organization, as a gov- 
ernment or body-corporate, could lawfully acquire, possess, or convey 
any description of property. As an established Government, the United 
States, under the law of nations and the acts of Congress, has the right 
to seize and apply to its benefit all property which was used to subvert 
its authority, or which has been voluntarily contributed or dedicated to 
such use or juirpose by the owner. 

On this theory you will act as directed in my telegram above referred 
to, and direct the action of those under you accordingly, and you and 
they will be sustained therein by the Department. 
Very respectfully, 

H. Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
William P. Mellen, Esq., 

General Agent of the Treasury Department, JSfeic Orleans, La. 
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154 captured, abandoned, and surrendered property, 
circular letter to supervising special agents. 

Treasury Department, 

Febnianj 23, 18GG. 

After the receipt of this letter you will neither make, nor cause, nor 
authorize any seizures or detentions of cotton or other property as cap- 
t ired or abandoned, unless by special written direction in each case from 
the general agent, or direct froju the Dci)artinent. In any case wiiitdi 
lUiiy come to yonr knowledge of i)roperty belonging to the late so called 
confederate government, where the property is of sucrli amount and so 
situated, with such clear i)roors, as in your Judgment to maU(i it im|)or- 
tant for the Government that it should be secaired, you will at once re- 
port all the facts (including the evidence, and a statenuuit as to the 
locality of the property, or the direction in which it is moving) to the 
general agent, or to the Dei)artment, and await instructions on the sub- 
iect. 

Immediately upon receipt hereof you will make a special report 
to the Department of all lots of cotton or other i)roi)erty now under 
seizure or detention within y(mr agency, by your authority or direction, 
or that of any assistant, or sub-agent or contractor, together with all the 
evidence in relation thereto, retaining such cotton in its then locality 
and condition, protecting the same from loss or danmge, but not rebal- 
ing any cotton, nor placing it in pickery, nor incurring any unreason- 
able expense on its account. And uo shipment, release, or division ot 
the same will be made in any case except by direction of the general 
agent, or the Department. 

You will also immediately terminate all contracts, of whatever nature, 
for collecting captured or abandoned ])roi>erty now outstanding, within 
your agency, by your authority or the authority of any assistant or sub- 
agent, and also terminate at once all further operations under any such 
contracts, and you will also immediately furnish to the Department a 
full statement of all such contracts, and of tlie coiulition of operations 
under the same. 

You will, as soon as possible, discontinue the services of all assistant 
and sub agents within your agency not absolutely required in the imme- 
diate closing up of yonr business; and no compensation will be paid to any 
agent or emi)loye in your agency longer than ten days atter the receii)t 
of this letter, u'nless,\ipon special report to the Department, stating the 
reasons therefor, their further continuance in oftice shall be authorized. 

You will make your arrangements to jinally close the business of your 
office as soon as possible, settling or approving the accounts of your 
subordinates, and promptly forwarding your own accounts for tinal set- 
tlement. 

The receii)t of this letter will be acknowledged by telegraph. 
Respect t nil v, 

H. McOULLOCIL 

Secretary of i lie Treasury. 



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